How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. — Evelyn Waugh 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 Copy Share Image
Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at… — Evelyn Waugh 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
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 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 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 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
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
“it's a great thing in life to have a place you can't be moved from - too few of them” — Evelyn Waugh 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 Copy Share Image
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," Helena continued, "I have a terrible dream of the future. Not now, but presently, people may forget their loyalty to their kings and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of… — 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 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 down your… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper” — 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
“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.” — 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. I can't… — Evelyn Waugh 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 encountered anyone… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
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