Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
EVELYN WAUGHNot everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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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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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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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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If 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.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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Here I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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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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I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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