Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
EVELYN WAUGHI put the words down and push them a bit.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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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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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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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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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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