Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
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Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
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My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
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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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Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
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If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
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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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