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My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour. — Auberon Waugh

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

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream. — Evelyn 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

By comparing what we know today with what the ancients appear to have known we can guess at the kinds of wine they drank. — Alec 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

Yes, I was determined to have a happy Christmas' 'Did you?' 'I think so. I don't remember it much, and that's always a good sign, isn't it? — 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

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker. — Evelyn Waugh

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. — Evelyn Waugh

The man who asks a woman what she wants deserves all that's coming to him. — Alec 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

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. — 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

I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me. — 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

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art. — 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'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation. — Evelyn Waugh

I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body. — Evelyn Waugh

To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven. — Alec Waugh

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people. — Evelyn Waugh

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. — Evelyn Waugh

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's. — Evelyn Waugh

There was one thing unforgivable, like things in the schoolroom so bad that only Mommy could deal with, to set up a rival good to God's. — Evelyn Waugh

There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely. — Evelyn Waugh

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes. — 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

London is a city of clubs and private houses. You have to be a member. — Alec Waugh

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore. — 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

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. — Evelyn Waugh

It's a great thing in life to have a place you can't be moved from - too few of them — Evelyn 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

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — 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

It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get. — Steve 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

Money does not motivate me as long as I can provide for my children. — Steve 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

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels. — 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

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. — 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

Soon someone would say the fatal words, Well, I think it's time for me to go to bed. — Evelyn 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

Family rules? We only have one rule in our house, and that's 'Don't Be Annoying' — Daisy 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

[ ... ] 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

Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity — Alexander Waugh

[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on. — Rebecca West

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

Anyone might become homosexual after seeing Glenda Jackson naked. — Auberon Waugh

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. — 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

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

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. — Evelyn Waugh

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words. — Evelyn Waugh

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone. — Evelyn Waugh