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 WAUGHAll this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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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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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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