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Evelyn Waugh Quotes
Best Quotes by Evelyn Waugh (Top 10)
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Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.
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I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
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Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.
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But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.
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... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.
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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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[Change is] the only evidence of life.
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More Evelyn Waugh Quotes
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Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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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If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
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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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When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot
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News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.
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Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
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I 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.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
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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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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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What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
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