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 needs looks
...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
giving-up despair needs
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.
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.
sleep years needs
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.
mean needs mercy
The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles
luck needs manners
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
names vocabulary needs
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
human love root wisdom
To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom
becoming expect gentlemen gets indecent sent
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.
aesthetic almost came conclusion crime desire due expression repressed
I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression
children expense pleasure posture
Of children as of procreation-the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
clothes enjoys fantasies man
What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them
english-author except fit youth
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
chap english-author until wants
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.