evelyn waugh Quotes

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

- Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

- Evelyn Waugh

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

- Evelyn Waugh

I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous -- constantly attacking people with his fists in public places -- so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart.

- Evelyn Waugh

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

- Evelyn Waugh

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

- Evelyn Waugh

Change is the only evidence of life.

- Evelyn Waugh

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

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

- Evelyn Waugh

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

- Evelyn Waugh

You focus on telling stories,
we do everything else.