Quotes by : Evelyn Waugh

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears....

Civilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic....

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean;....

I am sorry to disturb you,' said James politely, 'but these people wished to shoot us.

As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history,....

As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job — popularity. There are plenty of disadvantages....

No one is ever holy without suffering.

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and....