Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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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Once you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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