Evelyn Waugh

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Evelyn Waugh

Born: October 28, 1903

Died: April 10, 1966

Nationality: English

Occupation: Author, writer

Biography: Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh , known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer. His best-known works include his early satires Decline and Fall and A Handful of Dust, his novel Brideshead Revisited and his trilogy of Second World War novels collectively known as Sword of Honour.

Evelyn Waugh

“One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.”

- Evelyn Waugh

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“But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.”

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“I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behavior.”

- Evelyn Waugh

Source/Notes: Decline and Fall Prelude (1928)
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“Any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.”

- Evelyn Waugh

Source/Notes: Decline and Fall part 3, (1928), Chapter 4
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“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.”

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Source/Notes: As quoted in: Noel Annan, Our Age (1990)
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“There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.”

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“Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.”

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“The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.”

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“Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.”

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“If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.”

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“Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.”

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“Those huge novels from North America are not the product of diligence; hard labour would refine and clarify them.”

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“Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop it being brought in from outside.”

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“There aren't many left like him nowadays, what with education and whisky the price it is.”

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