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Famous Evelyn Waugh Quotes
“Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.”
“We are American at puberty. We die French.”
“Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.”
“There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.”
“I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.”
“You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.”
“I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent.”
“Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.”
“We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...”
“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”
“Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.”
“I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.”
“In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.”
“Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.”
“Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.”
“We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.”
“Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.”
“There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.”
“To understand all is to forgive all.”