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Perhaps all our loves are mer...

Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

They are a very decent genero...

They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

If a thing's worth doing at a...

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Beer commercials are so patri...

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

A work of art is not a matter...

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 240 quotes

Novel-writing is a highly ski...

Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

There is something incomparab...

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

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

A typical triumph of modern s...

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

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

It doesn't matter what people...

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Properly understood, style is...

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Aesthetic value is often the ...

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

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

The trouble with modern educa...

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

For in that city [New York] t...

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Enclosing every thin man, the...

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Punctuality is the virtue of ...

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

There are no poetic ideas; on...

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

You never find an Englishman ...

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

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Instead of this absurd divisi...

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Professional reviewers read s...

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

He was gifted with the sly, s...

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

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