Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'. - Evelyn Waugh

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. - Evelyn Waugh

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

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. - Evelyn Waugh

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. - Evelyn Waugh

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead. - Evelyn Waugh

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. - Evelyn Waugh

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in Old Maid; the player who is finally left with it has lost. - Evelyn Waugh

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

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