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
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If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression
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In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
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If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
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... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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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?
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Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot
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I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
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O God, make me good, but not yet.
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But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.
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Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
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I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.
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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.