He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
EVELYN WAUGHNot everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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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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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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