Evelyn Waugh Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Reading, Book, Differences

• There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

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  Book, Firsts, Opening

  Evelyn Waugh (1968). “A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall”

• I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

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  Baby, Work, Book

• To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Hands, Vases

• I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Friendship, Believe, Book

• She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Mind, Titles

• I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

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  Book, Worst, Novel

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

• Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Writing, Curiosity

  "A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1964.

• "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim..." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away."

  Evelyn Waugh

  Running, Art, Morning

  "Black Mischief". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1932.

• Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Phrases, Literature

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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