Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Evelyn Waugh - Page 4

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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable — © Evelyn Waugh
Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable
I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.
How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.
You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.
I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.
that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. 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. Love or what you will. S.
I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!
"What war?" said the Prime Minister sharply. "No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I'll be damned," he said defiantly, "if they shall have a war without consulting me. What's a cabinet for, if there's not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?"
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.
Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.
Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.
The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.
...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?
I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.
The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us? — © Evelyn Waugh
The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.
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.
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