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.
daughter mother children
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
dog england englishmen
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
grows has-beens
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
country new-york cities
There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.
adults patient language
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
language numerals fingers
The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
comfort deaf
I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.
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.
religious atheism salary
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.
literature down-and bits
I put the words down and push them a bit.
human love root wisdom
To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom
english-author except fit youth
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.