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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.
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- “Oh, why did nobody warn me?" cried Grimes in agony. "I should have been told. They should have told me in so…”Evelyn Waugh
- “We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.”Evelyn Waugh
- “Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phr…”Evelyn Waugh
- “What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?”Evelyn Waugh
War: more sayings
- “Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.”Abigail Disney
- “The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.”Jim Leach
- “Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea…”Robert Dallek
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Books by Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited
2000
Decline and Fall
2017
Scoop
1973
A Handful of Dust
2001
Vile Bodies
1996