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There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or… — Evelyn Waugh Cities Copy Share Image
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. — Evelyn Waugh Life Copy Share Image
I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for… — Evelyn Waugh Hunger Copy Share Image
The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and… — Evelyn Waugh Audience Copy Share Image
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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 Brideshead revisited Copy Share Image
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable — Evelyn Waugh Child 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
“He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food… of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight… — Evelyn Waugh Change Copy Share Image
“I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
“Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation. Charles: I don't know what that means. Cordelia: It means you can be a nun.… — Evelyn Waugh Career Copy Share Image
Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than… — Evelyn Waugh Captivity Copy Share Image
Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I… — Evelyn Waugh Apology Copy Share Image
“There was a change in both of us. We had lost a sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our… — Evelyn Waugh Change Copy Share Image
I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glades, no embroidered feet on the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
“Miss Runcible wore trousers and Miles touched up his eye-lashes in the dining-room of the hotel where they stopped for luncheon. So… — Evelyn Waugh Humour Copy Share Image
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an… — Evelyn Waugh Beavers Copy Share Image
“So you never got to wherever it was. Weren't you terribly disappointed, Sebastian? --Julia Flyte” — Evelyn Waugh Disappointed Copy Share Image
“The avalanche was down, the hillside swept bare behind it; the last echoes died on the white slopes; the new mount glittered… — Evelyn Waugh Avalanche Copy Share Image
“A hundred days wasted out of two years and a bit ... a day when you were not in my heart; not… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it. — Evelyn Waugh Funny Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under… — Evelyn Waugh Books Copy Share Image
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase… — Evelyn Waugh Book Copy Share Image
There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon .… — Evelyn Waugh Air power Copy Share Image
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for… — Evelyn Waugh Adult life Copy Share Image
Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power… — Evelyn Waugh Dignity Copy Share Image
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Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.' 'I don't think he… — Evelyn Waugh Fanny Copy Share Image
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone… — Evelyn Waugh College Copy Share Image
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