Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
EVELYN WAUGHI put the words down and push them a bit.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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