I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
EVELYN WAUGHI can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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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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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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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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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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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 don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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