431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

You'll find you spend half your second year shaking off the undesirable friends you made in your first...

So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.

You killed your grandfather, Erik?''Yes, did you not know? I thought it was well known. I was very young at the time and had taken a lot of sixty per cent. It was with a chopper.

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

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 flavor with flavor from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of brandy.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.