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
circles bars opinion
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 a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.
people hunger young
I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.
doors youth innocence
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.
puberty dies
We are American at puberty. We die French.
wine men dowry
Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.
sex class people
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
blow forever goes-on
Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.
father son advice
My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
home two cameras
I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.
names sound reason
Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
civilization benefits accepting
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
wisdom self rich
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
men average three
One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.
sex sleep together
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.