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Evelyn Waugh Quotes — 12 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

To see him fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sèvres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

Evelyn Waugh · On Stephen Spender's autobiography, The Tablet (May 5, 1951)

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

Evelyn Waugh · The source reads: “Randolph Churchill went into hospital… to have a lung removed. It was announced that the trouble was not "malignant."… It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.” · Diaries (March 1964), of Randolph Churchill

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 · The source reads: “"Sometimes," said Julia, "I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all."” · Brideshead Revisited (1945), Julia

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

Evelyn Waugh · The source reads: “Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums… who find prison so soul destroying.” · Decline and Fall (1928), pt. III, ch. 4

Evelyn Waugh Quotes

To see him fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sèvres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

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

I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.

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

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs—except in England, of course.

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

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.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

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