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... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
He wasn’t a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair. (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
We are American at puberty. We die French. (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
I put the words down and push them a bit (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic. (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline. (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page. (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered. (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
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. (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
Soon someone would say the fatal words, Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.’ ‘I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,’ said Paul. (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it. (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
Aesthetic value is often the by product of the artist striving to do something else (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
Please bear in mind throughout that IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
Feather footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)
I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house (Evelyn Waugh Quotes)