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 WAUGHO God, make me good, but not yet.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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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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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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 politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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