Best Evelyn Waugh Sayings
- The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's. Argument
- My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless. Adults
- There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New… Cities
- Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be… Adult
- The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the… Advisable
- Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble,… Accidia
- I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort. Comfort
- If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat… Achieved
- Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker. Intense
- Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. Been
- Civilization - and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and… Accept
- You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course. Among
- A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline… Art
- Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat. Always Expecting
- Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else. Aesthetic
- We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University,… Across
- Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the… All
- My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past. Certainly Except
- I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets;… Carefully
- It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value… Artist
- If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it… Book
- Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. All
- Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. Blessing
- Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. Aesthetic
- We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. Ability
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