431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression

To understand all is to forgive all.

I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.

He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]

To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom

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.

What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them

We possess nothing certainly except the past