If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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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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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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 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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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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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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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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