If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
EVELYN WAUGHO God, make me good, but not yet.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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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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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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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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