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[Change is] the only evidence ...

[Change is] the only evidence of life.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Sometimes, I feel the past and...

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 240 quotes

I have been in the scholastic ...

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Aesthetic value is often the b...

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, C...

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 run

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Conversation should be like ju...

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

My theme is memory, that winge...

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 240 quotes

I have lived carefully, shelte...

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

It may happen in the next hund...

It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

If Brideshead Revisited is not...

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. V...

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

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

If politicians and scientists ...

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Don't give your opinions about...

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Anyone could write a novel giv...

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

An artist must be a reactionar...

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 240 quotes

We possess nothing certainly e...

We possess nothing certainly except the past

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Beerbohm was a genius of the p...

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

You spend the first term at Ox...

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

His heart; some long word at t...

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Free as air; that's what they ...

Free as air; that's what they say- 'free as air'. Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

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