Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.
Evelyn WaughFree as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.
Evelyn WaughHis heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.
Evelyn WaughThus strategists hesitate over the map, the few pins and lines of coloured chalk, contemplating a change in the pins and lines, a matter of inches, which outside the room, out of sight of the studious officers, may engulf the past, present and future in ruin or life. She was a symbol to herself then, lacking the life of both child and woman; victory and defeat were changes of pin and line; she knew nothing of war.
Evelyn WaughIt was dead contrary to the common experience of such encounters, when time is found to have built its own defensive lines, camouflaged vulnerable points, and laid a field of mines across all but a few well-trodden paths, so that, more often than not, we can only signal to one another from either side of the tangle of wire.
Evelyn WaughWell, you see, she was saintly but she wasn't a saint. No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to hate him and his saints they have to find something like themselves and pretend it's God and hate that. I suppose you think that's all bosh.
Evelyn WaughHere I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.
Evelyn WaughIf a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
Evelyn WaughBeware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper
Evelyn WaughEvelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?
Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it.
Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.
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