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.
EVELYN WAUGHIf 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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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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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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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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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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