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Evelyn Waugh Quotes (105 quotes)
 | “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) |
| Source/Notes: Brideshead Revisited (1945) |
| “...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) |
| Source/Notes: Brideshead Revisited (1945) |
| Source/Notes: The Loved One (1948) |
| “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) |
| “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) |
| “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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Evelyn Waugh
Born: October 28, 1903
Died: April 10, 1966 (aged 62)
Nationality: English
Occupation: Author, writer
Bio: 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.
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