Evelyn Waugh Quotes - Page 6

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• I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Travel, Italian, Venice

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• An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Past, Thinking

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• Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

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  Home, School, Gay

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 3, ch. 4

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• Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

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  Air, Iron, Barrels

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• 'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

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  Change, Brideshead Revisited, Evidence

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder".

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• There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.

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  Running, Character, Men

  "Waugh at the BBC: 'the most ill-natured interview ever' on CD after 55 years" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2008.

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• I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

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  Travel, Real, Atlas

  Evelyn Waugh (1934). “Ninety-two Days: Travels in Guiana and Brazil”, Serif Publishing

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• His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

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  Death, Writing, People

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

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  Home, Two, Cameras

  Evelyn Waugh (2002). “The loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy”

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• From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.

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  Daughter, Integrity, Son

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.

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  Lying, Lovely, Suing

  Evelyn Waugh (1992). “The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

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  Men, Average, Three

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• 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.

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  Baby, Work, Book

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• We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

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  Teacher, Retirement, Hype

  Evelyn Waugh (1968). “A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall”

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• If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

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  Summer, Fruit, Always Alone

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

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  War, Half, World

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• There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

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  Ideas, Utterance, Poetic

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “A Little Order: Selected Journalism”, p.199, Penguin UK

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• The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver.

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  Art, Drama, Blow

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

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  School, May, Kick Ass

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Decline and Fall”, p.62, Penguin UK

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• 'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

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  Funny, Humor, House

  'Scoop' (1938) bk. 2, ch. 1

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• I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

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  People, Hunger, Young

  EVELYN WAUGH (1958). “VILE BODIES & BLACK MISCHIEF”

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• I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

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  Eye, People, Annoyed

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• That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

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  Heart, Sadness, Years

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

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  Childhood, Phrases, Veils

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

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  Wine, Men, Dowry

  Evelyn Waugh (1947*). “Wine in peace and war”

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