Best Evelyn Waugh Words
- I can't bare you when you're not amusing. Amusing
- Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us;… Ahead
- He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive… Absolutely
- He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...] Fail
- To understand all is to forgive all. All
- I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search… Afterwards
- That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart… Ago
- These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. Certainly Except
- I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick… Aloysius
- Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning… Age
- that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back. Apt
- Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in… Air
- No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they… Find
- Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came… Asked
- 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 shut… Bad
- For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. Air
- If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... Alone
- The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught… Anyone
- [Change is] the only evidence of life. Change
- Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all. All
- You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them Avoiding
- His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word. Dying
- Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel. Air
- Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity. Dignity
- If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well. All
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