Evelyn Waugh Country Quotations

They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.