His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he… — 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
The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered. — Evelyn Waugh 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
It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up. — Evelyn Waugh 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 Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
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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
We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's. — Evelyn Waugh 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 Copy Share Image
MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions… — 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
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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
