“It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Yes, I was determined to have a happy Christmas' 'Did you?' 'I think so. I don't remember it much, and that's always… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp,… — Evelyn Waugh Business Copy Share Image
At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“But I don't know a word of German, I've had no experience, I've got no testimonials, and I can't play cricket.' 'It… — Evelyn Waugh Language Copy Share Image
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech… — Evelyn Waugh Death Copy Share Image
“Just the place to bury a crock of gold. I should like to bury something precious, in every place I've been happy.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste,… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food… of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship… — Evelyn Waugh Advice Copy Share Image
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight… — Evelyn Waugh Change Copy Share Image
“I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
“Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation. Charles: I don't know what that means. Cordelia: It means you can be a nun.… — Evelyn Waugh Career Copy Share Image
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and… — Evelyn Waugh 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
The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her.… — Evelyn Waugh Catholic Copy Share Image
“We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of the Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the… — Evelyn Waugh Humor Copy Share Image
“...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people… — Evelyn Waugh Prison Copy Share Image
“Frankly," said the Doctor, "I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertainment that fills… — Evelyn Waugh Dance Copy Share Image
“From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“At the door fo the dining-room he left us. 'Good night, Mr Jorkins,' he said. 'I hope you will pay us another… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It… — Evelyn Waugh Art Copy Share Image
