Best Evelyn Waugh Quotes
- You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human… Aid
- Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him… Always Answer
- An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. Age
- The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself. Any
- We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit. Deceit
- The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere… Baubles
- Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. Action
- Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'. Alone
- He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and… Alternate
- I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. Author
- I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby. Baby
- If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be All
- Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself.… Analyze
- 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… Age
- We possess nothing certainly except the past Certainly Except
- Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights… Balls
- Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot Boot
- Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. All
- 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 a… Attaches
- There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances. Ideas
- "What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told.… Been
- An artist must be a reactionary Artist
- All fates are ‘worse than death’. All
- O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin, Forgive
- But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help… Classics
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