Evelyn Waugh Quotes - Page 6

• Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Genius, Kind

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• Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

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  Home, Self, Sufficiency

  Scoop (1938) bk. 1, ch. 1

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• I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

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  Education, Long, Reason

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Decline and Fall”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• Lo único que conviene saber en cualquier idioma son los números; e incluso ahí se puede hacer mucho con los dedos.

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  Language, Numerals, Fingers

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). "The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh", Methuen

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• La mejor clase de ismaelitas han sido cristianos durante muchos siglos y no comerán públicamente carne humana sin cocinar en Cuaresma, sin una dispensa especial y costosa de su obispo.

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  Christian, Special, Atheism

  Evelyn Waugh (1964). "Scoop: una novela"

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• Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.

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  Wine, Afterlife, Order

  Evelyn Waugh (1942). “Put out more flags”

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• I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

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  Travel, Italian, Venice

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• An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.

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  Arte, Pasado, Pensamiento

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• Anyone 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 who find prison so soul-destroying.

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  Home, School, Gay

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 3, ch. 4

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• Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

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  Air, Iron, Barrels

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• MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.

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  Knowing, People, Helping

  Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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• 'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

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  Change, Brideshead Revisited, Evidence

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder".

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• There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.

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  Running, Character, Men

  "Waugh at the BBC: 'the most ill-natured interview ever' on CD after 55 years" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2008.

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• I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

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  Travel, Real, Atlas

  Evelyn Waugh (1934). “Ninety-two Days: Travels in Guiana and Brazil”, Serif Publishing

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• His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

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  Death, Writing, People

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). "The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh", Methuen

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• I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

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  Home, Two, Cameras

  Evelyn Waugh (2002). “The loved one: an Anglo-American tragedy”

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• I am suing Lord Beaverbrook for libel and hope for some lovely tax-free money in damages. He has very conveniently told some lies about me.

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  Lying, Lovely, Suing

  Evelyn Waugh (1992). “The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Desde los tiempos más remotos, los galeses han sido considerados un pueblo impuro. Por eso han preservado su integridad racial. Sus hijos e hijas rara vez se aparean con seres humanos, salvo con sus propios parientes consanguíneos.

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  Daughter, Integrity, Son

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). "El mundo de Evelyn Waugh"

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• 'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

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  Divertido, Humor, Casa

  'Scoop' (1938) bk. 2, ch. 1

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• If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

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  Summer, Fruit, Always Alone

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.81, Penguin UK

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• One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

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  Men, Average, Three

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• The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

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  People, Theatre, Looks

  "Waugh at the BBC: 'the most ill-natured interview ever' on CD after 55 years" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2008.

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• Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

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  Wine, Men, Dowry

  Evelyn Waugh (1947*). “Wine in peace and war”

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• We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

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  Teacher, Retirement, Hype

  Evelyn Waugh (1968). "Un puñado de polvo: Decadencia y caída"

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• There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

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  Ideas, Utterance, Poetic

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “A Little Order: Selected Journalism”, p.199, Penguin UK

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