Enclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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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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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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
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I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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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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The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
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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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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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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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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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