Port 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 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 WAUGHThe trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
EVELYN WAUGHThere is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
EVELYN WAUGHEnclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
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 WAUGHOne forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
EVELYN WAUGHMy children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
EVELYN WAUGHI prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
EVELYN WAUGHAfter all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can’t trust a person.
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 WAUGHI’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
EVELYN WAUGHConversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
EVELYN WAUGHAn artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
EVELYN WAUGHPerhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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 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 WAUGH