431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

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.

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

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one gray morning of war-time.

These memories, which are my life – for we possess nothing certainly except the past – were always with me.

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it’s so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

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

But I had no patience with this convent chatter. I had felt the brush take life in my hand that afternoon; I had had my finger in the great, succulent pie of creation. I was a man of the Renaissance that evening- of Browning’s renaissance. I, who had walked the streets of Rome in Genoa velvet and had seen the stars through Galileo’s tube, spurned the friars, with their dusty tomes, and their sunken, jealous eyes and their crabbed hair-splitting speech.

MGM bores me when I see them, but I don’t see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.