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
names vocabulary needs
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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.
patriotic beer america
Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?
children ridiculous pleasure
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
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.
drama speech events
I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.
drama speech events
I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.
character apology grace
Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.