431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn’t know existed.

You can’t ever tell what’s going to hurt people.

I’m in the soup!

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.

I can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.

The tour bus was supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Would it be possible to give them a ring to check they’ve not forgotten us?

We don’t get much time to read the papers.” “No, I suppose you don’t. I envy you. There’s nothing in them but lies,” he added sadly. “You can’t believe a word they say. But it’s all good. Very good indeed. It helps to keep one’s spirits up,” he said from the depths of his gloom.

The languor of Youth – how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

Next morning at first light to Guy’s surprise the troopship at last emerged from the haze of myth and was seen to be solidly at anchor beyond the mouth of the harbor.