Evelyn Waugh Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Vocabulary, Names, Needs

• 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.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Love, Disappointment, Spring

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

• Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Adults, Patient, Study

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

• 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 regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Writing, Character, Exercise

• The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Language, Numerals, Fingers

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

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