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
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
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. — 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
I think it's one of the kindest things you can do to the very wicked, to give them time to repent. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. — 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
“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
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
![“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.” quote by Evelyn Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4f8/evelyn-waugh-850_age_an-artist-must-be-a-reactionary-he-has-t_571484.jpg)
