If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
EVELYN WAUGHI can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
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It is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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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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