After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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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 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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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.
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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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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
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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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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