I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
EVELYN WAUGHThe trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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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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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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