431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

The audiences certainly have [declined]. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.