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
travel new-york loneliness
If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.
travel real pieces
I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
travel italian venice
I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.
likes tourists traveller
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
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.
happier scientist scientists
If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
dying english-author lyric national quotation
In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
war half world
At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.