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I have no technical psychologi...

I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

I read the newspapers with liv...

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

I regard writing not as an inv...

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

I think there's almost nothing...

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

It is no longer possible to ac...

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

I've always had two principles...

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

My father and I were never int...

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.

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Never get mixed up in a Welsh ...

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Novel-writing is a highly skil...

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 signific

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Once you start changing a name...

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

One has to regard a man as a M...

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 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.

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The audiences certainly have [...

The audiences certainly have [declined]. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

There is no ordinary run of ma...

There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.

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Wine is a bride who brings a g...

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

You can't ever tell what's goi...

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

An artist must be a reactionar...

An artist must be a reactionary

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

All fates are 'worse than deat...

All fates are 'worse than death'.

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O God, if there is a God, forg...

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin,

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Remember that, however patient...

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

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