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
artist years novelists
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.
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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.
home college years
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.
years lasts last-words
that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.
new-year autumn years
It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn.
sadness heart years
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.
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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.
clothes enjoys fantasies man
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?
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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.