Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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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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