Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

… the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.

Denial

Hardship

Self

… To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

And Love

Brideshead Revisited

Roots

…its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

Looks

Needs

People

…she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, “Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

Forever

Looks

Sadness

‘I don’t believe you’ve changed at all, Charles.’ ‘No, I’m afraid not.’ ‘D’you want to change?’ ‘It’s the only evidence of life.’

Brideshead Revisited

Change

Evidence

‘I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house’ she said.

Funny

House

Humor

“It is typical of Oxford,” I said, “to start the new year in autumn.”

Autumn

New Year

Years

“We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim…” Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. “Rats,” he said; “stinking curs. They are all running away.”

Art

Morning

Running

“What war?” said the Prime Minister sharply. “No one has said anything to me about a war. I really think I should have been told. I’ll be damned,” he said defiantly, “if they shall have a war without consulting me. What’s a cabinet for, if there’s not more mutual confidence than that? What do they want a war for anyway?”

Should Have

Thinking

War

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

Funny

Science

Technology

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Accepting

Action

Adults

Advice

Aesthetic

Afterlife

Age

Air

Alarms

Alive

Alleys

Always Alone

America

Amusing

And Love

Annoyed

Apology

Arguing

Argument

Art

Artist

Atheism

Atlas

Autumn

Average

Baby

Bangs

Barrels

Bars

Beautiful

Beavers

Bed

Beer

Being In Love

Believe

Benefits

Bits

Blessing

Blind

Blow

Blue

Book

Boots

Bores You

Bottles

Brideshead Revisited

Broken

Bunnies

Cameras

Captivity

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Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

… the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.

… To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

…its a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

…she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, “Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

‘I don’t believe you’ve changed at all, Charles.’ ‘No, I’m afraid not.’ ‘D’you want to change?’ ‘It’s the only evidence of life.’

‘I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house’ she said.

“It is typical of Oxford,” I said, “to start the new year in autumn.”

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

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