Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
EVELYN WAUGH
O God, make me good, but not yet.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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.
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A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
EVELYN WAUGH