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
years lasts last-words
that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.
sleep years needs
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.
english-history england influence
We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.
unique youth lost
The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!
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.
writing wife paper
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
country people secret
They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
dying world vices
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
doors youth innocence
It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.
sex sleep together
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
names sound reason
Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
sex class people
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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.
father son advice
My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.