Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
EVELYN WAUGHManners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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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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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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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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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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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