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
work blessing bores-you
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
art islands doe
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
ugly remember miserable
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
happier scientist scientists
If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
dying english-author lyric national quotation
In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
english-author except fit youth
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
chap english-author until wants
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
becoming expect gentlemen gets indecent sent
I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.
human love root wisdom
To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom