There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair. by Evelyn Waugh

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

Evelyn Waugh

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Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

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Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

want heart may

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autu... by Evelyn Waugh

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

autumn new-year years

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant... by Evelyn Waugh

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

ignorant modern trouble

No one is ever holy without suffering. by Evelyn Waugh

No one is ever holy without suffering.

brideshead-revisited holy suffering

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

hunger young people

When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.

lines views morning

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out,... by Evelyn Waugh

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

kick-ass may school

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that... by Evelyn Waugh

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

atlas real travel

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

sadness forever looks

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

independent party heard

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are a... by Evelyn Waugh

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

dream writing thinking

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

annoyed eye people

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

brideshead-revisited memories past

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

cameras home two

Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.

healthy careers writing

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she s... by Evelyn Waugh

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

humor house funny

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the i... by Evelyn Waugh

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

english-history influence england

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit... by Evelyn Waugh

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

genius kind art

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

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