431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...

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.

A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glades, no embroidered feet on the green sward; the cream and dappled unicorns had fled...

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

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

It was his misfortune to be respected as a writer by almost everyone except those with whom he most consorted.

A blow, expected, repeated, falling upon a bruise with no smart or shock of surprise, only a dull and sickening pain and the doubt whether another like it could be borne.

They are a very decent, generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen. Always remember that, dear boy. It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.