“Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. — Evelyn Waugh Aesthetic Copy Share Image
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. — Evelyn Waugh Father Copy Share Image
It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn. — Evelyn Waugh Autumn Copy Share Image
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course. — Evelyn Waugh England Copy Share Image
The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's. — Evelyn Waugh Argument Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene… — Evelyn Waugh Athens Copy Share Image
One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading… — Evelyn Waugh Book Copy Share Image
“At night his most frequent recurring dream was of doing The Times crossword puzzle; his most disagreeable that he was reading a… — Evelyn Waugh Books Copy Share Image
“We class schools, you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School, Good School, and School. Frankly," said Mr Levy, "School is… — Evelyn Waugh Education Copy Share Image
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have… — Evelyn Waugh Baby Copy Share Image
I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian… — Evelyn Waugh Bad habit Copy Share Image
“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along;… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
“Well, I do call that a lot of nonsense. I can understand a man wishing he hadn’t married and trying to get… — Evelyn Waugh Nonsense Copy Share Image
Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies… — Evelyn Waugh Delight Copy Share Image
Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and… — Evelyn Waugh Afterlife Copy Share Image
“He lit his cigar and sat back at peace with the world; I, too, was at peace in another world than his.… — Evelyn Waugh Another world Copy Share Image
“I returned to London in the spring of 1926 for the General Strike. It was the topic of Paris. The French, exultant… — Evelyn Waugh Civil war Copy Share Image
“No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to… — Evelyn Waugh Book Copy Share Image
I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“This was my conversion to the baroque. Here under that high and insolent dome, under those tricky ceilings; here, as I passed… — Evelyn Waugh Baroque Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“What an immature, self-destructive, antiquated mischief is man! How obscure and gross his prancing and chattering on his little stage of evolution!… — Evelyn Waugh Animals Copy Share Image
“I never see you now,’ she said. ‘I never seem to see anyone I like. I don’t know why.’ But she spoke… — Evelyn Waugh Friendship 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 History Copy Share Image
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“It is possible for the rich to sin by coveting the privileges of the poor. The poor has always being the favorites… — Evelyn Waugh 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 Copy Share Image
that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back. — Evelyn Waugh Language Copy Share Image
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be — Evelyn Waugh Happier Copy Share Image
'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said. — Evelyn Waugh Funny Copy Share Image
“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.” — Evelyn Waugh Conformity Copy Share Image
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. — Evelyn Waugh Dream Copy Share Image
![“It is possible for the rich to sin by coveting the privileges of the poor. The poor has always being the favorites of god" I caught him’ [the thief] with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still bring him back with a twitch upon…” quote by Evelyn Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/100/evelyn-waugh-850_last-year_it-is-possible-for-the-rich-to-sin-by-co_790119.jpg)
