Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit, the springs of art, are, in their mystery, akin to the epochs of history, when a race which for centuries has lived content, unknown, behind its own frontiers, digging, eating, sleeping, begetting, doing what was requisite for survival and nothing else, will, for a generation or two, stupefy the world; commit all manner of crimes, perhaps; follow the wildest chimeras, go down in the end in agony, but leave behind a record of new heights scaled and new rewards won for all mankind; the vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again.

Evil | World |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

What is adolescence without trash?

Little | Nature | Purpose | Purpose | Self-approval | Words |

Eustace Budgell

The most difficult province in friendship is the letting a man see his faults and errors; which should, if possible, be so contrived that he may perceive our advice is given him not so much to please ourselves as for his own advantage. The reproaches, therefore, of a friend should always be strictly just, and not too frequent.

Despise | Nothing |

Evelyn Underhill

Anyone can lead a prayer-life -- that is, the sort of reasonable devotional life to which each is called by God. This only involves making a suitable rule and making up your mind to keep it however boring this may be.

Disease | Need | Work |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

He lit his cigar and sat back at peace with the world; I, too, was at peace in another world than his. We both were happy. He talked of Julia and I heard his voice, unintelligible at a great distance, like a dog's barking miles away on a still night.

Dawn | Little | Thinking |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behavior.

Love | People |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

Despair | Need |

Evan Esar

It's all right to break your word if you use a hyphen.

Evelyn Glennie, fully Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces.

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

I knew Sebastian by sight long before I met him. That was unavoidable for, from his first week, he was the most conspicuous man of his year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behavior, which seemed to know no bounds... I was struck less by his looks than by the fact that he was carrying a large teddy-bear.

Rest |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

Life | Life |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Lord |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

The sound of the English country families baying for broken glass.

Day | Death | Guests |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.

Man |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Speech | World | Think |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.

Absurd | Distinction | Effort | Excitement | Growth | Ideas | Inevitable | Life | Life | Men | Organic | People | Right | Think |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

To understand all is to forgive all.

Love |

Evelyn Glennie, fully Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie

I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

Art | History | Important | Little | Purpose | Purpose | Art |