Evelyn Waugh Men Quotations

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

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.

He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.