Best Evelyn Waugh Quotations
- All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. All
- Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. Absurd
- Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left… Card
- He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. Among
- I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. Cliche
- In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. Dying
- It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. Absolutely
- My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. Affection
- Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. Father
- When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them. Argue
- The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself… Cloddish
- Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. Especially
- Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases. Arresting
- We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. Class
- Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come… All
- The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of… Beautiful
- There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to… Any
- Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it… Art
- Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a… Alarm
- The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! Anguished
- Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed. Bed
- I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could… Been
- The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair,… Affection
- Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He… Captivity
- There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair. Despair
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