“Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.” — Evelyn Waugh Birth control Copy Share Image
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife. — Evelyn Waugh Books Copy Share Image
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker. — Evelyn Waugh Fashion Copy Share Image
“Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.” — Evelyn Waugh Accommodation Copy Share Image
“What is it about being on a boat that makes everyone behave like a film star? --Julia Flyte” — 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
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not… — Evelyn Waugh Belief Copy Share Image
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in… — Evelyn Waugh Books Copy Share Image
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. — Evelyn Waugh Age Copy Share Image
“From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
“But I don't know a word of German, I've had no experience, I've got no testimonials, and I can't play cricket.' 'It… — Evelyn Waugh Language Copy Share Image
My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship… — Evelyn Waugh Advice Copy Share Image
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech… — Evelyn Waugh Death Copy Share Image
“Just the place to bury a crock of gold. I should like to bury something precious, in every place I've been happy.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste,… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
“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… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I’ve always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God.… — Evelyn Waugh Compassion Copy Share Image
“If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.” — Evelyn Waugh Architecture Copy Share Image
When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp,… — Evelyn Waugh Business Copy Share Image
At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Yes, I was determined to have a happy Christmas' 'Did you?' 'I think so. I don't remember it much, and that's always… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of… — Evelyn Waugh Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Not for her the cruel, delicate luxury of choice, the indolent, cat-and-mouse pastimes of the hearth-rug. No Penelope she; she must hunt… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar. — Evelyn Waugh Blue Copy Share Image
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I… — Evelyn Waugh Character Copy Share Image
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take… — Evelyn Waugh Child 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 Catholicism Copy Share Image
