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
wine order afterlife
Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.
blow forever goes-on
Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.
wine men dowry
Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.
puberty dies
We are American at puberty. We die French.
expression desire crime
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
summer long retrospect
How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.
lips suspense hunger
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
captivity pool beavers
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.
circles bars opinion
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.
amusing i-can
I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
if-there-is-a-god forgiving sin
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin,
hats rabbits bunnies
Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.
morning memories war
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.
daughter mother children
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.