I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
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 WAUGHOf the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic – that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
EVELYN WAUGHWe cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them…
EVELYN WAUGHPunctuality is the virtue of the bored.
EVELYN WAUGHI’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
EVELYN WAUGHAll this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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 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 great charm in argument is really finding one’s own opinions, not other people’s.
EVELYN WAUGHWe possess nothing certainly except the past.
EVELYN WAUGHI can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
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 WAUGHEnclosing every thin man, there’s a fat man demanding elbow-room.
EVELYN WAUGHThere is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
EVELYN WAUGHYour actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
EVELYN WAUGHI don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.
EVELYN WAUGH