Evelyn Waugh Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Vocabulary, Names, Needs

• The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Heaven, Mind, Atheism

  Evelyn Waugh (1942). “Put out more flags”

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Dog, Literature, England

  'The Loved One' (1948) ch. 1

• The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Beautiful, Truth, Growing Up

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

• Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Money, Player, Cards

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

• It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Promise, Curiosity, Literature

  "Put Out More Flags". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1942.

• We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

  Evelyn Waugh

  School, Class, Literature

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 1, ch. 1

• I put the words down and push them a bit.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Literature, Down And, Bits

  The New York Times obituary, April 11, 1966.

• Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Sex, Class, People

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

• Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Simple, Thrones, Literature

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Helena”, p.148, Penguin UK

• 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

• Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Literature, Grows, Has Beens

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

• There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Religious, Atheism, Salary

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 2, ch. 4

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Country, Literature, Censorship

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “Vile Bodies”, p.9, Obelix Books

• We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Teacher, Retirement, Hype

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

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