Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales. — Evelyn Waugh Disaster Copy Share Image
“Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat.” — Evelyn Waugh Friendship Copy Share Image
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. — Evelyn Waugh Class 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
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
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
“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
I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in Old Maid; the player who… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them.… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is… — Evelyn Waugh Age Copy Share Image
“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an… — Evelyn Waugh Age Copy Share Image
Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Outside the windows the cars swept past continuously, out of town, into town, lights ablaze, radios at full throttle. “I wither slowly… — Evelyn Waugh Prayer Copy Share Image
No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and… — Evelyn Waugh Hate 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 Being married Copy Share Image
“There could be no eldest son for her, and younger sons were indelicate things, necessary, but not to be much spoken of.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“...the collection of sombre and bulky objects that had stood in his father's dressing room; indestructable presents for his wedding and twenty-first… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“They are all negros. And the Fascists won’t be called black because of their racial pride, so they are called White after… — Evelyn Waugh Fascists Copy Share Image
“Julia used to say, 'Poor Sebastian. It's something chemical in him.' That was the cant phrase of the time, derived from heaven… — Evelyn Waugh Science Copy Share Image
“Thus strategists hesitate over the map, the few pins and lines of coloured chalk, contemplating a change in the pins and lines,… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit,… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
“Oh, why did nobody warn me?" cried Grimes in agony. "I should have been told. They should have told me in so… — Evelyn Waugh Children 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 Age Copy Share Image
“The vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again.” — Evelyn Waugh Dreams Copy Share Image
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person. — Evelyn Waugh Being in love Copy Share Image
Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The Church isn't a cult for a few heroes. It is the whole of fallen mankind redeemed.” — Evelyn Waugh Catholicism Copy Share Image
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm? — Evelyn Waugh Brideshead revisited Copy Share Image
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. — Evelyn Waugh Cliche Copy Share Image
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