“ I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous -- constantly attacking people with his fists in public places -- so I kept clear o… Evelyn Waugh
“ I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist's pride and the philistine's vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of th… Evelyn Waugh
“ If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... Evelyn Waugh
“ I was thinking about honour. It's a thing that changes doesn't it? I mean, a hundred and fifty years ago we would have had to fight if challenged. Now we'd laugh. There must have been a time when it w… Evelyn Waugh
“ Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.''I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul. Evelyn Waugh
“ That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips dri… Evelyn Waugh
“ Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. Evelyn Waugh
“ He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible. Evelyn Waugh
“ The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up. Evelyn Waugh
“ I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective. Evelyn Waugh
“ Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club. 'Most of war seems to consist of hanging about,' he said. 'Let's at leas… Evelyn Waugh
“ It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door. Evelyn Waugh
“ She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at t… Evelyn Waugh
