Evelyn Waugh Quotes About Summer

Quotes about: Summer

• If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Summer, Fruit, Always Alone

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.81, Penguin UK

• Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Summer, Laughter, Flower

• How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Summer, Long, Retrospect

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.64, Penguin UK

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