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
happier scientist scientists
If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
aesthetic almost came conclusion crime desire due expression repressed
I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression
dying english-author lyric national quotation
In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
roots and-love brideshead-revisited
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
patriotic beer america
Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?
boots feathers
Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot
common-experience common miserable
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
brideshead-revisited
O God, make me good, but not yet.
ornaments grit pearls
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
deceit needs steps
The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.
here-i-am ruins dignity
Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
oxford interesting people
You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them
intelligent confusion people
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.
english-history england influence
We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.