“This war has begun in darkness and it will end in silence.” — Evelyn Waugh Darkness Copy Share Image
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. — Evelyn Waugh Ability Copy Share Image
Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh Adventure Copy Share Image
I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. — Evelyn Waugh Funny Copy Share Image
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author. — Evelyn Waugh Belief Copy Share Image
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase… — Evelyn Waugh Book Copy Share Image
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under… — Evelyn Waugh Books Copy Share Image
...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself.… — Evelyn Waugh Change Copy Share Image
“It was dead contrary to the common experience of such encounters, when time is found to have built its own defensive lines,… — Evelyn Waugh Time Copy Share Image
“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the… — Evelyn Waugh Architecture Copy Share Image
If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and… — Evelyn Waugh Antiquity Copy Share Image
“If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which… — Evelyn Waugh Adventure Copy Share Image
“Even on that convivial evening I could feel my host emanating little magnetic waves of social uneasiness, creating, rather, a pool of… — Evelyn Waugh Embarrassment Copy Share Image
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.' 'I don't think he… — Evelyn Waugh Fanny Copy Share Image
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone… — Evelyn Waugh College Copy Share Image
The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon .… — Evelyn Waugh Air power Copy Share Image
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for… — Evelyn Waugh Adult life Copy Share Image
“Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth...distribution of energy...” — Evelyn Waugh Effort Copy Share Image
Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power… — Evelyn Waugh Dignity Copy Share Image
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. — Evelyn Waugh Affection Copy Share Image
“[f]ortune is the lease capricious of deities, and arranges things on the just and rigid system that no one shall be very… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the… — Evelyn Waugh Young people Copy Share Image
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the… — Evelyn Waugh Brideshead revisited Copy Share Image
“The cream and hot butter mingled and overflowed separating each glucose bead of caviar from its fellows, capping it in white and… — Evelyn Waugh Beautiful-imagery Copy Share Image
“A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glades, no embroidered feet on the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Miss Runcible wore trousers and Miles touched up his eye-lashes in the dining-room of the hotel where they stopped for luncheon. So… — Evelyn Waugh Humour Copy Share Image
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
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