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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I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.

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How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

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MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.

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I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wic... by Evelyn Waugh

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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I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,a... by Evelyn Waugh

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

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The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

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From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

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Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

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If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.

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But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

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The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions,... by Evelyn Waugh

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

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"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"

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I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

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He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...] by Evelyn Waugh

He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]

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Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time... by Evelyn Waugh

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.

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Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room. by Evelyn Waugh

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

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I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. by Evelyn Waugh

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

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The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.

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It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

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