Air power Quote by Evelyn Waugh

If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with…

— Evelyn Waugh

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

— Evelyn Waugh

“Sometimes," Helena continued, "I have a terrible dream of the future. Not now, but presently, people may forget their loyalty to their kings and…

— Evelyn Waugh

“Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of…

— Evelyn Waugh

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

— Evelyn Waugh

“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 down your…

— Evelyn Waugh

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

— Evelyn Waugh

“Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper”

— Evelyn Waugh

“The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.”

— Evelyn Waugh

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't…

— Evelyn Waugh

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone…

— Evelyn Waugh