If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
EVELYN WAUGHI 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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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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I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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Its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
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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 easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door.
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