A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
EVELYN WAUGHManners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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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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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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