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.
EVELYN WAUGHManners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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