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... the understatement, the se...

... 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.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

I prefer all but the very wors...

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Not everyone grows to be old, ...

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Words should be an intense ple...

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

If one's object is ascetic, it...

If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

I'm quite deaf now; such a com...

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Medical science has oppressed ...

Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

The only thing that it is advi...

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

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

There is practically no sense ...

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

My children weary me. I can on...

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

The great charm in argument is...

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

'What war?' said the Prime M...

'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?'

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

If every museum in the New Wor...

If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Suffering is none the less acu...

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

How ungenerously in later life...

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

News is what a chap who doesn'...

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

Her heart was broken perhaps, ...

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

She told me later that she had...

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying 'I must read that, too, when I've the time,' replace it and continue the search.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

He had no strength for any oth...

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

Evelyn Waugh 240 quotes

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