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
unique youth lost
The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!
english-history england influence
We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.
wine order afterlife
Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.
country people secret
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
blind alleys procreation
I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
men rooms elbows
Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.
food class cider
Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.
eye people annoyed
I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.
art drama blow
The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.
drama speech events
I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.
thinking table-manners tables
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
daughter integrity son
From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.
deceit needs steps
The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.
knowing people helping
MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.