Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I never can understand how two men can write a book together to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.
Evelyn Waugh
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Evelyn Waugh
Age: 62 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 28
Died: 1966
Died: April 10
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh
Never
Understand
Men
Write
Like
Three
People
Two
Together
Book
Writing
Baby
Work
Getting
More quotes by Evelyn Waugh
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
Evelyn Waugh
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.
Evelyn Waugh
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love it kills art I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
Evelyn Waugh
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
Evelyn Waugh
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Evelyn Waugh
From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations.
Evelyn Waugh
Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.
Evelyn Waugh
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
Evelyn Waugh
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
Evelyn Waugh
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
Evelyn Waugh
Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said 'I hope your heart may break but I do understand.
Evelyn Waugh
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.
Evelyn Waugh
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
Evelyn Waugh
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
Evelyn Waugh
He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.
Evelyn Waugh
You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.
Evelyn Waugh
I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.
Evelyn Waugh
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
Evelyn Waugh
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
Evelyn Waugh
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
Evelyn Waugh
