To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGHIt is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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 should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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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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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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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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