“When people hate with all that energy, it is something in themselves they are hating.” — Evelyn Waugh Energy Copy Share Image
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. — Evelyn Waugh Absurd Copy Share Image
“Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.” — Evelyn Waugh Brides Copy Share Image
“Brenda descended the great staircase step by step through alternations of dusk and rainbow.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again.” — Evelyn Waugh Dreams Copy Share Image
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. — Evelyn Waugh Class Copy Share Image
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person. — Evelyn Waugh Being in love Copy Share Image
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it.… — 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
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.” — 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… — 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 Surprised Copy Share Image
“What is a "canty day", Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick… — Evelyn Waugh Humour Copy Share Image
I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very… — Evelyn Waugh Broken ; heart Copy Share Image
If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice… — Evelyn Waugh Art 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 Solitary confinement Copy Share Image
Just the place to bury a crock of gold, said Sebastian. I should like to bury something precious in every place where… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was… — Evelyn Waugh Friendship Copy Share Image
“I distinctly remember last Christmas seeing you together and thinking how happy you looked, and wondering why. You’ll find it very disturbing,… — Evelyn Waugh Christmas Copy Share Image
“I took you out to dinner to warn you of charm. I warned you expressly and in great detail of the Flyte… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
“Oh, why did nobody warn me?" cried Grimes in agony. "I should have been told. They should have told me in so… — Evelyn Waugh Children Copy Share Image
“These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit,… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
“There could be no eldest son for her, and younger sons were indelicate things, necessary, but not to be much spoken of.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“...the collection of sombre and bulky objects that had stood in his father's dressing room; indestructable presents for his wedding and twenty-first… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“They are all negros. And the Fascists won’t be called black because of their racial pride, so they are called White after… — Evelyn Waugh Fascists Copy Share Image
Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Why, once Jakes went out to cover a revolution in one of the Balkan capitals. He overslept in his carriage, woke up… — Evelyn Waugh Computers Copy Share Image
“My dear, I could hardly keep still in my chair. I wanted to dash out of the house and leap in a… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
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