431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Guy left the office unashamed. He felt shaken, as though he had seen a road accident in which he was not concerned. His fingers shook but it was nerves not conscience which troubled him; he was familiar with shame; this trembling, hopeless sense of disaster was something of quite another order; something that would pass and leave no mark.

I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that’s like three people getting together to have a baby.

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I’ll sign on the dotted line.

Sebastian’s life was governed by a code of such imperatives. ‘I must have pillar-box red pyjamas,’ ‘I have to stay in bed until the sun works round the windows,’ ‘I’ve absolutely got to drink champagne tonight.

I’ve just been to Greece to see the buildings there,′ said Professor Silenus. ‘Did you like them?’ ‘They are unspeakably ugly. But there were some nice goats.

It’s not to be expected that an ox and an ass should worship at the crib. Animals are always doing the oddest things in the lives of the saints. It’s all part of the poetry, the Alice-In-Wonderland side of religion.

Mr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.

There are two distinct kinds of meanness – those which come of loving money and of disliking it. Mine was the latter sort.