black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

Evelyn Waugh

I 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 WAUGH

Bed Myself Need Rest Sleep Work
I’m one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
EVELYN WAUGH

Blind Myself Road
I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
EVELYN WAUGH

Common Experience Live Misery Myself Possible
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
EVELYN WAUGH

Growth Himself Old Young
Of 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 WAUGH

Character Food Soft Warm
If a thing’s worth doing at all, it’s worth doing well.
EVELYN WAUGH

Work Worth
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
EVELYN WAUGH

Meaning Vulgar Word
I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGH

Myself Voice Word
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
EVELYN WAUGH

Division People Sex Weird
You 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 WAUGH

Hard Human Ideas Myself Power Religious
Her 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

Feeling Heart Broken Herself Local Simplicity
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 WAUGH

Active Age Comfortable Company Philosophy Young
I 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

Character Exercise Language Myself Obsession Regard Writing
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
EVELYN WAUGH

Books Feeling Open Thrill
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
EVELYN WAUGH

Boredom One Liner Punctuality Time Virtue
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.
EVELYN WAUGH

Care Media News Reading

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Evelyn Waugh Quotes