431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.

I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they've not forgotten us?

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.