Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Evelyn Waugh
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
Evelyn Waugh
I put the words down and push them a bit.
Evelyn Waugh
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Evelyn Waugh
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
Evelyn Waugh
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
Evelyn Waugh
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
Evelyn Waugh
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
Evelyn Waugh
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
Evelyn Waugh
Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
Evelyn Waugh
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Evelyn Waugh
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
Evelyn Waugh
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Evelyn Waugh
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
Evelyn Waugh
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
Evelyn Waugh
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
Evelyn Waugh
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
Evelyn Waugh
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
Evelyn Waugh
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
Evelyn Waugh
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
Evelyn Waugh
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
Evelyn Waugh
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
Evelyn Waugh
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Type:
Author
Date of Birth:
1903-10-28
Year of Death:
1966
Nationality:
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