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.
EVELYN WAUGHI put the words down and push them a bit.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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