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
wine men dowry
Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.
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.
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.
men rooms elbows
Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.
men youth fit
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
men age bottles
He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.
clothes enjoys fantasies man
What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them
children expense pleasure posture
Of children as of procreation-the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
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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
war half world
At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.
fall drifting-off light
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.
lips suspense hunger
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
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Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.