To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.
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.
- Evelyn Waugh
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.
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.
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
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…
... 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.
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.
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