Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the… — Evelyn Waugh Brideshead revisited Copy Share Image
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. — Evelyn Waugh Affection Copy Share Image
“[f]ortune is the lease capricious of deities, and arranges things on the just and rigid system that no one shall be very… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the… — Evelyn Waugh Young people Copy Share Image
“The cream and hot butter mingled and overflowed separating each glucose bead of caviar from its fellows, capping it in white and… — Evelyn Waugh Beautiful-imagery Copy Share Image
“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along;… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
“... a necklace of pearls on a white neck. We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“He took a large tablet of beet sugar (an equivalent quantity of ordinary lump sugar does equally well) and soaked it in… — Evelyn Waugh Champagne Copy Share Image
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen… It's the secret of… — Evelyn Waugh Country Copy Share Image
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go… — Evelyn Waugh Age Copy Share Image
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he… — Evelyn Waugh Correspondence Copy Share Image
“Had he not suffered unscathed the fearful dooms of all the offended gods, of all the histories, fire, brimstone, and yawning earthquakes,… — Evelyn Waugh Ruination Copy Share Image
“Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but… — Evelyn Waugh Belief Copy Share Image
“We must go quickly before my sister gets back." "Which are you ashamed of, her or me?" "I'm ashamed of myself," said… — Evelyn Waugh Ashamed Copy Share Image
...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself.… — Evelyn Waugh Change Copy Share Image
“It was dead contrary to the common experience of such encounters, when time is found to have built its own defensive lines,… — Evelyn Waugh Time Copy Share Image
“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the… — Evelyn Waugh Architecture Copy Share Image
“Even on that convivial evening I could feel my host emanating little magnetic waves of social uneasiness, creating, rather, a pool of… — Evelyn Waugh Embarrassment Copy Share Image
There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which… — Evelyn Waugh Adventure Copy Share Image
The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and… — Evelyn Waugh Antiquity Copy Share Image
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