Evelyn Waugh Quotes - Page 2

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of the Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim...

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

...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.

My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.

I am sorry to disturb you,' said James politely, 'but these people wished to shoot us.

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

As my intimacy with his family grew, I became part of the world which he sought to escape; I became one of the bonds which held him.

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

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