431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

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

At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

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

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.

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.

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.