His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word. — Evelyn Waugh Death Copy Share Image
“Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. — Evelyn Waugh Father Copy Share Image
It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn. — Evelyn Waugh Autumn Copy Share Image
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. — Evelyn Waugh Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. — Evelyn Waugh Books Copy Share Image
If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... — Evelyn Waugh Fruit Copy Share Image
“There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a… — Evelyn Waugh Blasphemy Copy Share Image
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. — Evelyn Waugh Books Copy Share Image
I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it… — Evelyn Waugh Education Copy Share Image
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. — Evelyn Waugh Belief Copy Share Image
“Mr. Schultz, you're jealous of whispering Glades." "And why wouldn't I be seeing all that dough going on relations they've hated all… — Evelyn Waugh Animal Copy Share Image
“Your colleague, Captain Grimes, has been convicted before me on evidence that leaves no possibility of his innocence - of a crime… — Evelyn Waugh Crime Copy Share Image
Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Delight Copy Share Image
Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and… — Evelyn Waugh Afterlife Copy Share Image
“I returned to London in the spring of 1926 for the General Strike. It was the topic of Paris. The French, exultant… — Evelyn Waugh Civil war Copy Share Image
“He lit his cigar and sat back at peace with the world; I, too, was at peace in another world than his.… — Evelyn Waugh Another world Copy Share Image
“No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to… — Evelyn Waugh Book Copy Share Image
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life--for… — Evelyn Waugh History Copy Share Image
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Why, once Jakes went out to cover a revolution in one of the Balkan capitals. He overslept in his carriage, woke up… — Evelyn Waugh Computers Copy Share Image
“My dear, I could hardly keep still in my chair. I wanted to dash out of the house and leap in a… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Ten men of revolting appearance were approaching from the drive. They were low of brow, crafty of eye, and crooked of limb.… — Evelyn Waugh Motivation Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One… — Evelyn Waugh Arrangements Copy Share Image
“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life—for… — Evelyn Waugh Memories Copy Share Image
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