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Evelyn Waugh

Born: January 01, 1970

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

“She seemed to say Look at me. I have done my share. I am beautiful. It is something quite out of the ordinary, this beauty of mine. I am made for delight. But what do I get out of it? Where is my reward?”

- Evelyn Waugh

Source/Notes: Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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Evelyn Waugh

“I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.”

- Evelyn Waugh

Source/Notes: Part 3, chapter 5, Lord Marchmain's dying soliloquy. - Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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“O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.”

- Evelyn Waugh

Source/Notes: Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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Evelyn Waugh

“...But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable - like things in the school-room, so bad they were unpunishable, that only mummy could deal with - the bad thing I was on the point of doing, that I'm not quite bad enough to do; to set up a rival good to God's.”

- Evelyn Waugh

Source/Notes: Part 3, near end of chapter 5 - Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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Evelyn Waugh

“Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

- Evelyn Waugh

Source/Notes: Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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“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.”

- Evelyn Waugh

Source/Notes: The Loved One (1948)

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Evelyn Waugh

“It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.”

- Evelyn Waugh

Source/Notes: First lines - The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957)

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Evelyn Waugh

“His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz — everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime.”

- Evelyn Waugh

Source/Notes: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957)

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Evelyn Waugh

“Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.”

- Evelyn Waugh

Source/Notes: First lines - A Little Learning (1964)

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“If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe...”

- Evelyn Waugh

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