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
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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
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If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.
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There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
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I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
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I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
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I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.
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She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.
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To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.
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To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom
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I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.
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I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression
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Of children as of procreation-the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
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What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them
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What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?