A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.
EVELYN WAUGHRemember 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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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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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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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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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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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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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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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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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