There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
EVELYN WAUGHO God, make me good, but not yet.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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 can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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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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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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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 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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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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