Religion Quote by Evelyn Waugh

“I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or…

— Charlotte Brontë

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments, injured spirits,…

— Michelle Franklin

...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Normally he was fond of most things. He was a good-natured and cheerful young man, who liked life and the great majority of those…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“He often makes prizes of humans who have given their lives for causes He thinks bad on the monstrously sophistical ground that the humans…

— C.S. Lewis

“He carried the deep, intuitive understanding of the power of food to connect people, knew that food was not simply a device for entertaining…

— Michael Ruhlman

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past…

— Bruce Robinson

“His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth…

— Charles Dickens

“Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was…

— Thomas Hardy

“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe