Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Miss Runcible wore trousers and Miles touched up his eye-lashes in the dining-room of the hotel where they stopped for luncheon. So they were asked to leave.

I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith.

There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.''I don't think he is, ' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people

You'll find you spend half your second year shaking off the undesirable friends you made in your first...

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic.

He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

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.

My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.

...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich.

Change is the only evidence of life.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.