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
people theatre looks
The audiences certainly have [declined]. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.
expression desire crime
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
summer long retrospect
How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.
suffering lasting
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
lying lovely damage
I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.
giving forgotten minutes
The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?
book firsts opening
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
book worst novel
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
running character men
There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.
character writing exercise
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
ornaments grit pearls
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
daughter mother children
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
funny humor house
'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.
art genius kind
Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.