“So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.” — Evelyn Waugh Homosexuality Copy Share Image
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Oh, I shouldn't try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.” — Evelyn Waugh Education Copy Share Image
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. — Evelyn Waugh Manners Copy Share Image
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. — Evelyn Waugh Cliche Copy Share Image
“Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.” — Evelyn Waugh Childhood Copy Share Image
“There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a… — Evelyn Waugh Blasphemy Copy Share Image
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. — Evelyn Waugh Books Copy Share Image
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason… — Evelyn Waugh Anxious Copy Share Image
Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. — Evelyn Waugh Drinking party Copy Share Image
I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it… — Evelyn Waugh Education Copy Share Image
“I said to the doctor, who was with us daily. 'He's got a wonderful will to live, hasn't he?' 'Would you put… — Evelyn Waugh Death Copy Share Image
“Your colleague, Captain Grimes, has been convicted before me on evidence that leaves no possibility of his innocence - of a crime… — Evelyn Waugh Crime Copy Share Image
“Had he not suffered unscathed the fearful dooms of all the offended gods, of all the histories, fire, brimstone, and yawning earthquakes,… — Evelyn Waugh Ruination Copy Share Image
“Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go… — Evelyn Waugh Age Copy Share Image
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he… — Evelyn Waugh Correspondence Copy Share Image
“I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but… — Evelyn Waugh Belief Copy Share Image
“We must go quickly before my sister gets back." "Which are you ashamed of, her or me?" "I'm ashamed of myself," said… — Evelyn Waugh Ashamed Copy Share Image
“But she spoke as though it were a matter of weeks rather than of years; as though, too, before our parting we… — Evelyn Waugh Friendship Copy Share Image
“The view implicit in my education was that the basic narrative of Christianity had long been exposed as a myth, and that… — Evelyn Waugh Christianity Copy Share Image
“One of the first discoveries of his captivity was that interest in 'news' does not spring from genuine curiosity, but from the… — Evelyn Waugh Captivity Copy Share Image
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as… — Evelyn Waugh Age Copy Share Image
“At Swindon we turned off the main road and, as the sun mounted high, we were among dry-stone walls and ashlar houses.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Mummy dying with it; Christ dying with it, nailed hand and foot; hanging over the bed in the night-nursery; hanging year after… — Evelyn Waugh Death Copy Share Image
“What's this place called?' He told me and, on the instant, it was as though someone had switched off the wireless, and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Life is like the big wheel at Luna Park. You pay five francs and go into a room with tiers of seats… — Evelyn Waugh Dance Copy Share Image
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The Church isn't a cult for a few heroes. It is the whole of fallen mankind redeemed.” — Evelyn Waugh Catholicism Copy Share Image
Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm? — Evelyn Waugh Brideshead revisited Copy Share Image
I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me. — Evelyn Waugh Communication Copy Share Image
Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else. — Evelyn Waugh Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.” — Evelyn Waugh Books Copy Share Image
![“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.” quote by Evelyn Waugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f8/evelyn-waugh-850_age_an-artist-must-be-a-reactionary-he-has-t_571484.png)
