I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
EVELYN WAUGHNot everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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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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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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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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I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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