He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
EVELYN WAUGHO God, make me good, but not yet.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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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 should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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 politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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 think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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.
EVELYN WAUGH