Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
EVELYN WAUGHI put the words down and push them a bit.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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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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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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