Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waughwas an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Falland A Handful of Dust, the novel Brideshead Revisitedand the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour. Waugh is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 October 1903
adults patient language
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
sky horizon shells
The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.
teacher retirement deceit
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
retirement giving want
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
death writing people
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
women saint natural
Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
years lasts last-words
that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.
home self sufficiency
Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.
morning views lines
When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.
ignorant trouble modern
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
new-year autumn years
It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn.
unique land play
The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.
love writing italian
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what you will. S.
children ridiculous pleasure
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable