He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
EVELYN WAUGHI put the words down and push them a bit.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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 haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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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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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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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.
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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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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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