431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.