I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGHI put the words down and push them a bit.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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 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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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