After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“..perhaps all our lovers are merely hints and symbols; vagabond languages scrawled on gate-posts and paving stones along the weary road that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Old boy," said Grimes, "you're in love." "Nonsense!" "Smitten?" said Grimes. "No, no." "The tender passion?" "No." "Cupid's jolly little darts?" "No."… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“... a necklace of pearls on a white neck. We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I knew what she meant, and in that moment felt as though I had shaken off some of the dust and grit… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
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… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
“Sometimes," Helena continued, "I have a terrible dream of the future. Not now, but presently, people may forget their loyalty to their kings and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
“Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
“My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
“Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
“The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share
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