If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
EVELYN WAUGHIf politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
EVELYN WAUGHYou have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
EVELYN WAUGHI’m quite deaf now; such a comfort.
EVELYN WAUGHWe possess nothing certainly except the past.
EVELYN WAUGHInstead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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 did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
EVELYN WAUGHI think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.
EVELYN WAUGHPerhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
EVELYN WAUGHAesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
EVELYN WAUGHTo understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGHThey are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen. It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
EVELYN WAUGHAnyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.
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 WAUGHPunctuality is the virtue of the bored.
EVELYN WAUGHNot everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
EVELYN WAUGH