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
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.
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.