431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

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.

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food . . . of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns. . . . He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods . . . endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavour with flavour from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of old brandy.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

Of children as of procreation-the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.