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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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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