431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.

How good it is to sit in the shade and talk of love

That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips drift up into the branches.

Two wives despaired of him,’ he said. ‘When he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that he should take the cure at Zurich. And it worked. He came back in three months a different man. And he hasn't touched a drop since, even though Sylvia walked out on him.’ ‘Why did she do that?’Well, poor Charlie got rather a bore when he stopped drinking. But that’s not really the point of the story.

Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.

Ought we to be drunk every night?" Sebastian asked one morning."Yes, I think so.""I think so too.

Quando la gente odia con tanta foga, vuol dire che odia qualcosa che ha dentro di sé.

Miss Runcible wore trousers and Miles touched up his eye-lashes in the dining-room of the hotel where they stopped for luncheon. So they were asked to leave.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.