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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
Adore having you. It's only Ian; he was saying tonight he wondered if you wouldn't feel more comfortable if you paid something ...
— Evelyn 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
I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
— Evelyn Waugh
Of course those that have charm don't really need brains.
— 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
There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
— Evelyn Waugh
I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest.
— Evelyn Waugh
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
— Evelyn Waugh
Virginia's son was born on June 4th, the day on which all allied armies entered Rome.
— Evelyn Waugh
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
— 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
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
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
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
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
You've got to have dreams to keep you going.
— Steve Waugh
If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
— Evelyn Waugh
I don't suppose there has been a moment in the world's history where more people felt themselves to be artists, of when less art was produced.
— Auberon Waugh
It's awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.
— Evelyn Waugh
Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
— Evelyn Waugh
Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.
— Sachin Tendulkar
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
— Evelyn Waugh
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
— Evelyn Waugh
Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.
— Evelyn Waugh
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
— Evelyn Waugh
If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.
— Evelyn Waugh
It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.
— Steve Waugh
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
— Evelyn Waugh
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
— Evelyn Waugh
There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.
— 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
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
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
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life ...
— Evelyn Waugh
I should imagine that in my time I have eaten enough horses to provide a royal escort.
— Auberon Waugh
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
— Evelyn Waugh
There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don
— Steve 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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— Evelyn Waugh
Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity
— Alexander Waugh
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Despite their promises at the last Election, the politicians had not yet changed the climate.
— Evelyn Waugh
I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
— Evelyn Waugh
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
— 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
Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.
— Evelyn 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
The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.
— Steve Waugh
Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.
— Auberon Waugh
