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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
By Evelyn Waugh
Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.
By Evelyn Waugh
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.
By Evelyn Waugh
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
By Evelyn Waugh
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
By Evelyn Waugh
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
By Evelyn Waugh
Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
By Evelyn Waugh
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
By Evelyn Waugh
It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
By Evelyn Waugh
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
By Evelyn Waugh
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
By Evelyn Waugh