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.
EVELYN WAUGHO God, make me good, but not yet.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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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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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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