He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
EVELYN WAUGHWhen we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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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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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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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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