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 WAUGHI haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
EVELYN WAUGHThere is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
EVELYN WAUGHMr. Wodehouse’s idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.
EVELYN WAUGHYou don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
EVELYN WAUGHI regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
EVELYN WAUGHNot everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
EVELYN WAUGHA work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
EVELYN WAUGHMy children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
EVELYN WAUGHEvery Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
EVELYN WAUGHWhen we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
EVELYN WAUGHI did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
EVELYN WAUGHAll this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
EVELYN WAUGHWhere can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
EVELYN WAUGHIf you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.
EVELYN WAUGHI can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
EVELYN WAUGH