I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGHManners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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