What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
EVELYN WAUGHWhat is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
EVELYN WAUGHSometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
EVELYN WAUGHIts a rather pleasant change when all your life you’ve had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.
EVELYN WAUGHIt is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
EVELYN WAUGHPerhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
EVELYN WAUGHWhere can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
EVELYN WAUGHWhen we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
EVELYN WAUGHMoney is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in ‘Old Maid’; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
EVELYN WAUGHHer heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.
EVELYN WAUGHAesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
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 WAUGHI can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
EVELYN WAUGHI prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
EVELYN WAUGHYou don’t remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
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 WAUGHDon’t hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
EVELYN WAUGH