Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. - Evelyn Waugh
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
- Evelyn Waugh
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be - Evelyn Waugh
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being. - Evelyn Waugh
You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowled… - Evelyn Waugh
A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowled…
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. - Evelyn Waugh
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding pres… - Evelyn Waugh
Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding pres…
No one is ever holy without suffering. - Evelyn Waugh
No one is ever holy without suffering.
The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's. - Evelyn Waugh
The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. - Evelyn Waugh
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
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