Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
EVELYN WAUGHWhen we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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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 can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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