There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
Evelyn WaughI can't bare you when you're not amusing.
Evelyn WaughTags: humor
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn WaughTags: punctuality
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!
Evelyn WaughTags: word
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
Evelyn WaughTags: children
Faster... Faster... it'll stop all right when the time comes...
Evelyn Waugh...that kernel of gaiety that never breaks.
Evelyn WaughHe was talking very excitedly to me," said the Vicar, "about some apparatus for warming a church in Worthing and about the Apostolic Claims of the Church of Abyssinia. I confess I could not follow him clearly. He seems deeply interested in Church matters. Are you quite sure he is right in the head? I have noticed again and again since I have been in the Church that lay interest in ecclesiastical matters is often a prelude to insanity.
Evelyn WaughFrom 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 WaughSoon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.
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