Quote #76
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
More from Evelyn Waugh
- What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
- Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
- What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.
- Your action, and your action alone, determines your worth.
- We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
- Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
- There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
- If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the…