Evelyn Waugh Quotes

To watch him fumbling with our rich and delicate English language is like seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

With a thorough knowledge of the Bible, Shakespeare and Wisden, you cannot go far wrong.

No writer before the middle of the19th century wrote about the working classes other than as grotesques or as pastoral decorations. Then when they were given the vote certain writers started to suck up to them.

All fictional characters are flat.

Most of the world’s troubles seem to come from people who are too busy. If only politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

We are all American at puberty; we die French.