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The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
— Evelyn Waugh
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.
— Evelyn Waugh
Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law
— Auberon Waugh
History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.
— Auberon Waugh
Of course those that have charm don't really need brains.
— Evelyn Waugh
It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.
— Evelyn Waugh
You'll find you spend half your second year shaking off the undesirable friends you made in your first ...
— Evelyn Waugh
I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.
— Evelyn Waugh
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
— Evelyn Waugh
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
— Evelyn Waugh
He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]
— Evelyn Waugh
What is it about being on a boat that makes everyone behave like a film star?Julia Flyte — Evelyn Waugh
The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetlyperhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless. — Evelyn Waugh
No one is ever holy without suffering.
— Evelyn Waugh
Ought we to be drunk every night?" Sebastian asked one morning."Yes, I think so."
"I think so too. — Evelyn Waugh
...that kernel of gaiety that never breaks.
— Evelyn Waugh
So you never got to wherever it was. Weren't you terribly disappointed, Sebastian?Julia Flyte — Evelyn Waugh
To understand all is to forgive all.
— Evelyn Waugh
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
— Evelyn Waugh
Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life. — Evelyn Waugh
An artist must be a reactionary
— Evelyn Waugh
I had been there before; I knew all about it.
— Evelyn Waugh
Brenda descended the great staircase step by step through alternations of dusk and rainbow.
— Evelyn Waugh
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
— Evelyn Waugh
I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.
— Evelyn Waugh
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
— Evelyn Waugh
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
— Evelyn Waugh
You've got to have dreams to keep you going.
— Steve Waugh
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For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
— Evelyn Waugh
If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
— Evelyn Waugh
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.
— Evelyn Waugh
I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
— Steve Waugh
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
— Evelyn Waugh
You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.
— Evelyn Waugh
The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.
— Evelyn Waugh
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[Change is] the only evidence of life.
— Evelyn Waugh
I am sorry to disturb you,' said James politely, 'but these people wished to shoot us.
— Evelyn Waugh
As my intimacy with his family grew, I became part of the world which he sought to escape; I became one of the bonds which held him.
— Evelyn Waugh
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
— Evelyn Waugh
Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.
— Auberon Waugh
The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?
— Evelyn Waugh
I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.
— Evelyn Waugh
I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.
— Evelyn Waugh
Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life.
— Lev Grossman
Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity
— Alexander Waugh
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
— Evelyn Waugh
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
— Evelyn Waugh
I should imagine that in my time I have eaten enough horses to provide a royal escort.
— Auberon Waugh
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life ...
— Evelyn Waugh
There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.
— Evelyn Waugh
Chokey cholmondley: "i sure am crazy about culture".
— Evelyn Waugh
Here it seemed some of them slept for there were divan beds covered with blankets only and a large, much undenticulated, comb.
— Evelyn Waugh
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
— Evelyn Waugh
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[ ... ] a sigh fit for the pillow, the sinking firelight, and a bedroom window open to the stars and the whisper of bare trees.
— Evelyn Waugh
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
— Evelyn Waugh
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
— Evelyn Waugh
Many rebel soldiers that night would sleep on their muskets and question the value of a victory that had cost them Stonewall Jackson.
— John C. Waugh
There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don
— Steve Waugh
The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.
— Steve Waugh
You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.
— Auberon Waugh
Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.
— Evelyn Waugh
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.
— Evelyn Waugh
At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.
— Evelyn Waugh
I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
— Evelyn Waugh
Despite their promises at the last Election, the politicians had not yet changed the climate.
— Evelyn Waugh
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