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.
EVELYN WAUGHAesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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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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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