Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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