Evelyn Waugh Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William? Sir William Beveridge: I get mine trying to leave the world a better place than I found it. Waugh: I get mine spreading alarm and despondency and I get more satisfaction than you do.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Trying, Alarms, World

• All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Sex, Sleep, Together

  Vile Bodies (1930) ch. 6

• Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

  Evelyn Waugh

  Children, Ridiculous, Pleasure

  Evelyn Waugh, Mark Amory (1980). “The letters of Evelyn Waugh”, Weidenfeld & Nicolson

• Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Intense, Pleasure, Should

• They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Country, People, Secret

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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