Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
EVELYN WAUGHManners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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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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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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