431 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

No one is ever holy without suffering.

It was not her way to make a conspicuous entry into anyone’s life, but towards the end of that week Sebastian said rather sourly: “You and mummy seem very thick,” and I realized that in fact I was being drawn into intimacy by swift, imperceptible stages, for she was impatient of any human relationship that fell short of it.

Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

I had been there before; I knew all about it.

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous -- constantly attacking people with his fists in public places -- so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart.

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.