Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
EVELYN WAUGHA typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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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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