We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales. — Evelyn Waugh Disaster Copy Share Image
Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art. — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
“Where do you lurk? I shall come down your burrow and ch-chivvy you out like an old st-t-toat.” — Evelyn Waugh Friendship Copy Share Image
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! — Evelyn Waugh Anguished Copy Share Image
“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that theres no room for the present at… — Evelyn Waugh Complicated life Copy Share Image
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some… — Evelyn Waugh Damage Copy Share Image
'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.' — Evelyn Waugh Brideshead revisited Copy Share Image
The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without… — Evelyn Waugh Atheism Copy Share Image
The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most… — Evelyn Waugh Conspicuous Copy Share Image
“Then there was the concert where the boys refused to sing 'God Save the King' because of the pudding they had had… — Evelyn Waugh Festivity Copy Share Image
“In that dark hour I was aghast to realise that something within me, long sickening, had quietly died. I suddenly knew I… — Evelyn Waugh Dark Copy Share Image
I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at… — Evelyn Waugh Cameras Copy Share Image
I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it.… — Evelyn Waugh Being married Copy Share Image
“The best I can tell you in that way is that I’m much more at ease with fellow-Catholics than I am with… — Evelyn Waugh Catholic church Copy Share Image
“Well, you see, she was saintly but she wasn't a saint. No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“I have left behind illusion,' I said to myself. 'Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions - with the aid… — Evelyn Waugh Five senses Copy Share Image
“Ten men of revolting appearance were approaching from the drive. They were low of brow, crafty of eye, and crooked of limb.… — Evelyn Waugh Motivation Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One… — Evelyn Waugh Arrangements Copy Share Image
“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life—for… — Evelyn Waugh Memories Copy Share Image
“His constant, despairing prayer was to be let alone. By the blue waters and rustling palms of his own mind he was… — Evelyn Waugh Blue water Copy Share Image
“I knew what she meant, and in that moment felt as though I had shaken off some of the dust and grit… — Evelyn Waugh Investing Copy Share Image
“..perhaps all our lovers are merely hints and symbols; vagabond languages scrawled on gate-posts and paving stones along the weary road that… — Evelyn Waugh Disappointment Copy Share Image
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the… — Evelyn Waugh Affection Copy Share Image
“Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the… — Evelyn Waugh Christianity Copy Share Image
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word. — Evelyn Waugh Death Copy Share Image
