Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
EVELYN WAUGH
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.
More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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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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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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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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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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You don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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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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I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
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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 a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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