Quote #74
What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.
More from Evelyn Waugh
- We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
- What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
- There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
- When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
- The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation…
- Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
- The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
- Your action, and your action alone, determines your worth.