431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

That’s your little mob in there,’ said Grimes; ‘you let them out at eleven.’ ‘But what am I to teach them?’ said Paul in sudden panic. ‘Oh, I shouldn’t try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.

Here it seemed some of them slept for there were divan beds covered with blankets only and a large, much undenticulated, comb.

Virginia’s son was born on June 4th, the day on which all allied armies entered Rome.

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

Here I am,′ I thought, ’back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

I distinctly remember last Christmas seeing you together and thinking how happy you looked, and wondering why. You’ll find it very disturbing, you know, starting off again. How old are you – thirty-four? That’s no age to be starting.

The Grace of God is in courtesy’;.