431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions, but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.

Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.

The great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can’t shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles.

Don’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.

Free as air; that’s what they say- “free as air”. Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

Frankly,” said the Doctor, “I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertainment that fills me with greater detestation than a display of competitive athletics, none – except possibly folk dancing.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them.