Evelyn Waugh Quotes, Thoughts and images

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

O God, make me good, but not yet.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

We are American at puberty. We die French.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

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.