431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

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

Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.