Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
EVELYN WAUGHIf a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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