Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an… — Evelyn Waugh Beavers Copy Share Image
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it. — Evelyn Waugh Funny Copy Share Image
“So you never got to wherever it was. Weren't you terribly disappointed, Sebastian? --Julia Flyte” — Evelyn Waugh Disappointed Copy Share Image
“The avalanche was down, the hillside swept bare behind it; the last echoes died on the white slopes; the new mount glittered… — Evelyn Waugh Avalanche Copy Share Image
“A hundred days wasted out of two years and a bit ... a day when you were not in my heart; not… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than… — Evelyn Waugh Captivity 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
Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“... a necklace of pearls on a white neck. We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen… It's the secret of… — Evelyn Waugh Country Copy Share Image
“He took a large tablet of beet sugar (an equivalent quantity of ordinary lump sugar does equally well) and soaked it in… — Evelyn Waugh Champagne Copy Share Image
“Not for her the cruel, delicate luxury of choice, the indolent, cat-and-mouse pastimes of the hearth-rug. No Penelope she; she must hunt… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar. — Evelyn Waugh Blue Copy Share Image
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of… — Evelyn Waugh Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I can quite understand that many people may be depressed by the spectacle of naked humanity. Personally I cannot see that an… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would… — Evelyn Waugh Catholicism Copy Share Image
There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or… — Evelyn Waugh Cities Copy Share Image
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I… — Evelyn Waugh Character Copy Share Image
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take… — Evelyn Waugh Child Copy Share Image
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. — Evelyn Waugh Life Copy Share Image
I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for… — Evelyn Waugh Hunger Copy Share Image
The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and… — Evelyn Waugh Audience Copy Share Image
Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I… — Evelyn Waugh Apology Copy Share Image
“There was a change in both of us. We had lost a sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our… — Evelyn Waugh Change Copy Share Image
I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“[...] a sigh fit for the pillow, the sinking firelight, and a bedroom window open to the stars and the whisper of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would… — Evelyn Waugh Brideshead revisited Copy Share Image
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable — Evelyn Waugh Child Copy Share Image
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in… — Evelyn Waugh Books Copy Share Image
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not… — Evelyn Waugh Belief Copy Share Image
“I’ve always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God.… — Evelyn Waugh Compassion Copy Share Image
“If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.” — Evelyn Waugh Architecture Copy Share Image
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. — Evelyn Waugh Age Copy Share Image
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