When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
EVELYN WAUGHWe cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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 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 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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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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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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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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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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