I think it’s one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.
EVELYN WAUGH
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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To understand all is to forgive all.
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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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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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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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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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