Evelyn Waugh Quotes about Youth

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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Evelyn Waugh

Men, Youth, Fit

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

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

Evelyn Waugh

Doors, Innocence, Youth

Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.31, Penguin UK