Evelyn Waugh Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Giving, Important

  Evelyn Waugh's review of Stephen Spender "World within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender" in "The Tablet", May 5, 1951.

• If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Circles, Bars, Opinion

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

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  People, Opinion, Argument

  Evelyn Waugh, Michael Davie (1976). “The diaries of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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