One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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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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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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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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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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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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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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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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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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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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