Share & Save
Meaning
Not documented yet.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
Not documented yet.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
About Evelyn Waugh
English writer
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of the 20th century, best known for his novels, biographies, and travel books. He also worked widely as a journalist and book reviewer, and 75 quotes appear on the site under his name. He is especially associated with the satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952 to 1961). He is recognised as a major prose stylist in English literature.
More from Evelyn Waugh (75 quotes) →Keep reading Evelyn Waugh
- “The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain num…”Evelyn Waugh
- “I'll pray for you.""That's very kind of you.""I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a decade. I've…”Evelyn Waugh
- “He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he ha…”Evelyn Waugh
- “When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.”Evelyn Waugh
More Art quotes
- “I think it's important to widen my artistic repertoire.”Son Ye-jin
- “I really respect those guys that get $250,000 for punching up scripts, because it's an art form.”Bert Kreischer
- “In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and m…”Antoni Tapies
READ THE SOURCE
Books by Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
2000
Decline and Fall
2017
Scoop
1973
A Handful of Dust
2001
Vile Bodies
1996