"The human mind is inspired enough when it……" — Evelyn Waugh
"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish."
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153 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh
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- Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you…
- That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
- She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
- Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
- Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly…
- One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
- If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
- I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest…
- I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
- Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession…
- Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
- Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the…