All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
EVELYN WAUGHIf politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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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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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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