Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

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

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

Change is the only evidence of life.

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying.

Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich.

As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job — popularity. There are plenty of disadvantages I grant you, but you are liked and respected. Ring people up any hour of the day or night, butt into their houses uninvited make them answer a string of damn fool questions when they want to do something else — they like it. Always a smile and the best of everything for the gentlemen of the Press.