One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will d...
EVELYN WAUGH Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
EVELYN WAUGH Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
EVELYN WAUGH If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
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.
EVELYN WAUGH We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
EVELYN WAUGH An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go floppin...
EVELYN WAUGH That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
EVELYN WAUGH He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the ...
EVELYN WAUGH His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for we...
EVELYN WAUGH Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
EVELYN WAUGH News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he'...
EVELYN WAUGH Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway,...
EVELYN WAUGH Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra...
EVELYN WAUGH If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outs...
EVELYN WAUGH Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
EVELYN WAUGH You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I wou...
EVELYN WAUGH The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent ...
EVELYN WAUGH Other nations use force; we Britons alone use Might.
EVELYN WAUGH If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official s...
EVELYN WAUGH Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God...
EVELYN WAUGH Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It...
EVELYN WAUGH It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable fo...
EVELYN WAUGH In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's ly...
EVELYN WAUGH Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
EVELYN WAUGH I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one d...
EVELYN WAUGH News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news u...
EVELYN WAUGH There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a bene...
EVELYN WAUGH If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloy...
EVELYN WAUGH Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy cravi...
EVELYN WAUGH The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a ce...
EVELYN WAUGH I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendsh...
EVELYN WAUGH Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable...
EVELYN WAUGH It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitabl...
EVELYN WAUGH Punctuality is the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be
EVELYN WAUGH We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
EVELYN WAUGH We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
EVELYN WAUGH All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
EVELYN WAUGH What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
EVELYN WAUGH It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable ...
EVELYN WAUGH It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable...
EVELYN WAUGH What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
EVELYN WAUGH You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
EVELYN WAUGH We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
EVELYN WAUGH All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day...
EVELYN WAUGH The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent ...
EVELYN WAUGH You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.
EVELYN WAUGH No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to H...
EVELYN WAUGH ... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
EVELYN WAUGH [Change is] the only evidence of life.
EVELYN WAUGH I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I ...
EVELYN WAUGH ...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy...
EVELYN WAUGH To understand all is to forgive all.
EVELYN WAUGH No one is ever holy without suffering.
EVELYN WAUGH The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty ...
EVELYN WAUGH If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For ...
EVELYN WAUGH I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old...
EVELYN WAUGH Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the play...
EVELYN WAUGH The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would m...
EVELYN WAUGH Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that y...
EVELYN WAUGH Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
EVELYN WAUGH Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who i...
EVELYN WAUGH [A] decade of shame seemed to be ending in light and reason, [...] the Enemy was plain in view, huge...
EVELYN WAUGH Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the t...
EVELYN WAUGH In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
EVELYN WAUGH Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
EVELYN WAUGH Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiogra...
EVELYN WAUGH I put the words down and push them a bit.
EVELYN WAUGH I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
EVELYN WAUGH Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker
EVELYN WAUGH I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aes...
EVELYN WAUGH Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
EVELYN WAUGH There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed cl...
EVELYN WAUGH If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official...
EVELYN WAUGH When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
EVELYN WAUGH It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.
EVELYN WAUGH The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, o...
EVELYN WAUGH It was a small tortoise with Julia’s initials set in diamonds in the living shell, and this slight...
EVELYN WAUGH They are a very decent, generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen. Always ...
EVELYN WAUGH It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
EVELYN WAUGH The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human e...
EVELYN WAUGH I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel t...
EVELYN WAUGH Impotence and sodomy are socially O.K. but birth control is flagrantly middle-class.
EVELYN WAUGH To know and love another human being is the root of all wisdom
EVELYN WAUGH What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them
EVELYN WAUGH I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that g...
EVELYN WAUGH If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
EVELYN WAUGH Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
EVELYN WAUGH ...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to h...
EVELYN WAUGH After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.
EVELYN WAUGH Then there was the concert where the boys refused to sing 'God Save the King' because of the pudding...
EVELYN WAUGH So through a world of piety I made my way to Sebastian.
EVELYN WAUGH When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.
EVELYN WAUGH Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for t...
EVELYN WAUGH That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in ...
EVELYN WAUGH Presently [Bridey] said: “If I was Rex”—his mind seemed full of such suppositions: “If I was...
EVELYN WAUGH A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glade...
EVELYN WAUGH Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich.
EVELYN WAUGH As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job — popularity. There are plenty of ...
EVELYN WAUGH He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the ri...
EVELYN WAUGH Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars....
EVELYN WAUGH News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.
EVELYN WAUGH Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and pav...
EVELYN WAUGH I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.
EVELYN WAUGH My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally...
EVELYN WAUGH I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest i...
EVELYN WAUGH Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth...distribution ...
EVELYN WAUGH The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, s...
EVELYN WAUGH I took you out to dinner to warn you of charm. I warned you expressly and in great details of the Fl...
EVELYN WAUGH Frankly," said the Doctor, "I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertai...
EVELYN WAUGH Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer g...
EVELYN WAUGH Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller a...
EVELYN WAUGH My dear, I could hardly keep still in my chair. I wanted to dash out of the house and leap in a taxi...
EVELYN WAUGH Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good soli...
EVELYN WAUGH My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.

T...
EVELYN WAUGH But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly ...
EVELYN WAUGH But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized ...
EVELYN WAUGH I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common exper...
EVELYN WAUGH My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memori...
EVELYN WAUGH Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills ...
EVELYN WAUGH Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's ju...
EVELYN WAUGH 'What war?' said the Prime Minister sharply. 'No one has said anything to me about a war. I really t...
EVELYN ARTHUR ST. JOHN WAUGH A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is...
ALEC WAUGH Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invent...
AUBERON WAUGH Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exi...
AUBERON WAUGH It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to...
AUBERON WAUGH Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invent...
AUBERON WAUGH Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
AUBERON WAUGH We journalists like to think we are the new crusaders-it's much more gratifying than the image of th...
AUBERON WAUGH Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the ...
AUBERON WAUGH A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is...
ALEC WAUGH Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really ha...
STEVE WAUGH Tons of people are looking to go overseas for skiing holidays.
ALI WAUGH Most people head up to the mountain and automatically buy the most expensive stuff, even though they...
ALI WAUGH It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To sur...
STEVE WAUGH Australia has the edge for the Ashes. They're playing in Australia, they're fairly confident and hav...
STEVE WAUGH We've all heard horror stories about a proposed concrete barrier about to be dropped in the center l...
RICHARD WAUGH So they've got to be careful that they don't overdo it.
STEVE WAUGH England have played excellent cricket and have met head on the challenges both on and off the field,
STEVE WAUGH Actions do speak louder than words and they need to perform on the pitch. I was never a big believer...
STEVE WAUGH England have played excellent cricket and have met head on the challenges both on and off the field....
STEVE WAUGH It's hard really to say who has the upper hand at this stage,
STEVE WAUGH There may have been something behind that dinner, but I just took it as a casual conversation,
STEVE WAUGH We can get a couple of hundred people launching boats on summer weekends.
EMILY WAUGH I've always been artistic and never knew really what to do with it.
EMILY WAUGH They became the poster boys and girls for good public management and good government.
BILL WAUGH If it is a public health emergency, we're going to be in a sorry state if Homeland Security is in ch...
BILL WAUGH Faith-based organizations sort of fill gaps in the national emergency response.
BILL WAUGH We really fill up on summer weekends. There are picnic tables spread throughout, but we also have fo...
EMILY WAUGH I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for ...
ALEC WAUGH He was totally alien to the man I knew and loved. It was like he had a big black cloud hanging over ...
CAROLINE WAUGH I thought it was really sweet of her. I couldn't drive so I just thought she was lending me a helpin...
CAROLINE WAUGH I was lying next to my poorly son in hospital when he phoned and told me what had been going on. I d...
CAROLINE WAUGH The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.
STEVE WAUGH Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
AUBERON WAUGH Give Savannah State a lot of credit. With their record, they could have easily mailed it in but they...
DEREK WAUGH I was proud of the way we met physicality with physicality tonight. Karl Hollingsworth was fantastic...
DEREK WAUGH They made a nice adjustment on us. Trapped us a little bit, speeded us up.
DEREK WAUGH If you leave them open, and they're on, they're really gonna burn you. They end up making 11 threes ...
DEREK WAUGH Kris is fearless with his offensive game. And he did an excellent job defensively, too. When it was ...
DEREK WAUGH It's frustrating. Maybe there's a master plan for us.
DEREK WAUGH Last year one of our problems was we'd win a game and show up and play terrible the next game. Tonig...
DEREK WAUGH As a team we don't have it. Whatever it is, we don't have it. If we had it, we could be pretty good....
DEREK WAUGH I'm at a complete loss. When we play hard and play with some passion we're pretty good. I'm truly at...
DEREK WAUGH I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years.
STEVE WAUGH When mainstream science accepts this, we can put them in science classes.
JANET WAUGH Look at the media we're attracting. This is not positive media, folks, this is negative media. We're...
JANET WAUGH This is a sad day, not just for Kansas kids, but for Kansas. We're becoming a laughingstock not only...
JANET WAUGH This is a sad day. We're becoming a laughingstock of not only the nation, but of the world, and I ha...
JANET WAUGH We will be closing 73 Toys ?R' Us stores in the United States only. This does not affect our interna...
KATHLEEN WAUGH We knew that Amazing Amanda was going to be huge this holiday season. Our early read is that sales o...
KATHLEEN WAUGH Holidays are about experiences and people, and tuning into what you feel like doing at that moment. ...
EVELYN GLENNIE I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I know...
EVELYN KEYES I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.
EVELYN KEYES I was always interested in the man of the moment - and there were so many such moments.
EVELYN KEYES I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I had needed a size thirty-eight bra inst...
EVELYN KEYES I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure.
EVELYN KEYES I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy ...
EVELYN KEYES Make-up is the last thing to enhance your beauty, but it's very important because it builds up y...
EVELYN LAUDER My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland ...
EVELYN GLENNIE If there is a symbol of our age, perhaps it is something that every factory worker does each day of ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.
EVELYN UNDERHILL A belief which does not spring from a conviction in the emotions is no belief at all.
EVELYN SCOTT Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
JOHN EVELYN If the Christian penitent dares to ask that his many departures from the Christian norm, his impatie...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Gladys Aylward, Missionary in China, 1970 Two movements merge in the real act of...
EVELYN UNDERHILL "Books," said St. Augustine after his conversion, "could not teach me charity." We still keep on thi...
EVELYN UNDERHILL The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and sol...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550 Christian history looks gloriou...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Christianity is a religion which concerns us as ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 You can also offer your prayers, obedienc...
EVELYN UNDERHILL The purifying worth of prayer consists in the increasing contrast which it sets up between the holy ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL There is no need for peculiar conditions in order to grow in the spiritual life, for the pressure of...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660 Words are ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 Faith is not a refuge from reality. ...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Those who complain that they make no progress in...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" s...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 This, of course, is what religion is about: t...
EVELYN UNDERHILL Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Anyone can lead a "prayer-life" -- that is, the...
EVELYN UNDERHILL