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
running character men
There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.
blind alleys procreation
I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
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.
vanity
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
christian atheism special
The better sort of Ishmaelites have been Christian for many centuries and will not publicly eat human flesh uncooked in Lent, without special and costly dispensation from their bishop.
captivity generations delight
Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
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.
ideas utterance poetic
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
amusing i-can
I can't bare you when you're not amusing.