Evelyn Waugh Quotes about Literature

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

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.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

Evelyn Waugh

Literature, Down And, Bits

The New York Times obituary, April 11, 1966.

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

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

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

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