There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh Adventure Copy Share Image
Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“This war has begun in darkness and it will end in silence.” — Evelyn Waugh Darkness Copy Share Image
I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. — Evelyn Waugh Funny Copy Share Image
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. — Evelyn Waugh Cliche Copy Share Image
“Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.” — Evelyn Waugh Childhood Copy Share Image
I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! — Evelyn Waugh Anguished Copy Share Image
“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that theres no room for the present at… — Evelyn Waugh Complicated life Copy Share Image
The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some… — Evelyn Waugh Damage Copy Share Image
'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.' — Evelyn Waugh Brideshead revisited Copy Share Image
The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without… — Evelyn Waugh Atheism 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
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
“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
“The next four weeks of solitary confinement were among the happiest of Paul's life...It was so exhilarating, he found, never to have… — Evelyn Waugh Solitary confinement Copy Share Image
“I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very… — Evelyn Waugh Broken ; heart Copy Share Image
If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
“What's this place called?' He told me and, on the instant, it was as though someone had switched off the wireless, and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Life is like the big wheel at Luna Park. You pay five francs and go into a room with tiers of seats… — Evelyn Waugh Dance Copy Share Image
“The view implicit in my education was that the basic narrative of Christianity had long been exposed as a myth, and that… — Evelyn Waugh Christianity 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
“One of the first discoveries of his captivity was that interest in 'news' does not spring from genuine curiosity, but from the… — Evelyn Waugh Captivity Copy Share Image
“At Swindon we turned off the main road and, as the sun mounted high, we were among dry-stone walls and ashlar houses.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts… — Evelyn Waugh Almighty Copy Share Image
“But she spoke as though it were a matter of weeks rather than of years; as though, too, before our parting we… — Evelyn Waugh Friendship 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
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. — 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
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm? — Evelyn Waugh Brideshead revisited Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.” — Evelyn Waugh Appreciate beauty Copy Share Image
“So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.” — Evelyn Waugh Homosexuality Copy Share Image
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