Quotes by : Evelyn Waugh

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.''I don't....

Oh, why did nobody warn me?" cried Grimes in agony. "I should have been told. They should have told me....

It was not her way to make a conspicuous entry into anyone’s life, but towards the end of that week....

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element....

He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food… of the intoxicating breath of....

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need....

As my intimacy with his family grew, I became part of the world which he sought to escape; I became one....

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid....