The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
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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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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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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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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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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For in that city -New York; there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
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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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To understand all is to forgive all.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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I’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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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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O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
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