“Sometimes," Helena continued, "I have a terrible dream of the future. Not now, but presently, people may forget their loyalty to their… — Evelyn Waugh 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 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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that theres no room for the present at… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“She was daily surprised by the things he knew and the things he did not know; both, at the time, added to… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I knew what she meant, and in that moment felt as though I had shaken off some of the dust and grit… — Evelyn Waugh 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 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
“I never see you now,’ she said. ‘I never seem to see anyone I like. I don’t know why.’ But she spoke… — Evelyn Waugh 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 Copy Share Image
There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life--for… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed. — 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
“Julia used to say, 'Poor Sebastian. It's something chemical in him.' That was the cant phrase of the time, derived from heaven… — 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
“But she spoke as though it were a matter of weeks rather than of years; as though, too, before our parting we… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life—for… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them — Evelyn Waugh 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 Copy Share Image
She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The next four weeks of solitary confinement were among the happiest of Paul's life...It was so exhilarating, he found, never to have… — 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
