I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
EVELYN WAUGHI did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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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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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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