Evelyn Waugh Quotes

...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.

Evelyn Waugh

As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job — popularity. There are plenty of disadvantages I grant you, but you are liked and respected. Ring people up any hour of the day or night, butt into their houses uninvited make them answer a string of damn fool questions when they want to do something else — they like it. Always a smile and the best of everything for the gentlemen of the Press.

Evelyn Waugh

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

Evelyn Waugh

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

Evelyn Waugh

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.

Evelyn Waugh