I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
EVELYN WAUGH
I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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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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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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We possess nothing certainly except the past.
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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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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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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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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
EVELYN WAUGH