Evelyn Waugh Years Quotations

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

It is typical of Oxford, I said, to start the new year in autumn.

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.