If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
EVELYN WAUGHIf a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
EVELYN WAUGHWe possess nothing certainly except the past.
EVELYN WAUGHAnyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
EVELYN WAUGHThere’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
EVELYN WAUGHNews is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
EVELYN WAUGHI should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
EVELYN WAUGHThe only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.
EVELYN WAUGHOnce you start changing a name, you see, there’s no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
EVELYN WAUGHHe had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
EVELYN WAUGHWhat is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
EVELYN WAUGHIt is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
EVELYN WAUGHThe human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
EVELYN WAUGHThe trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
EVELYN WAUGHMy children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
EVELYN WAUGHAfter all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
EVELYN WAUGHO God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
EVELYN WAUGH