After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
EVELYN WAUGHI put the words down and push them a bit.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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 trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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