O God, make me good, but not yet.
EVELYN WAUGHAesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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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.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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