Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
EVELYN WAUGHYour actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
EVELYN WAUGHAnyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
EVELYN WAUGHPort is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
EVELYN WAUGHIt is a curious thing. That every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
EVELYN WAUGHAn artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
EVELYN WAUGHEvery Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
EVELYN WAUGHHere I am,’ I thought, ‘back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
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 WAUGHInstead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
EVELYN WAUGHWhere can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
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 WAUGHWords should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
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 WAUGHI prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
EVELYN WAUGHThe trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
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 WAUGH