What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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 typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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 regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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