01c. 1934 ADI have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
02c. 1934 ADOne does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
05c. 1934 ADWhen the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
06c. 1934 ADOh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
07c. 1934 ADHe lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food… of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns… He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods… endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavor with flavor from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of brandy.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
08c. 1934 ADIf she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
10c. 1934 ADAs there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
12c. 1934 ADHe was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
13c. 1934 ADHe was not at all what is called ‘a character’. He was an innocent, affable old man who had somehow preserved his good humor – much more than that, a mysterious and tranquil joy – throughout a life which to all outward observation had been overloaded with misfortune. He had like many another been born in full sunlight and lived to see night fall.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
14c. 1934 ADCivilization – and by this I do not mean talking cinemas and tinned food, nor even surgery and hygienic houses, but the whole moral and artistic organization of Europe – has not in itself the power of survival. It came into being through Christianity, and without it has no significance or power to command allegiance…That is the first discovery, that Christianity is essential to civilization and that it is in greater need of combative strength than it has been for centuries.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
15c. 1934 ADIf it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
16c. 1934 ADThe langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
17c. 1934 ADIt 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 / quote ↗
18c. 1934 ADThe languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
19c. 1934 ADIt was a small tortoise with Julia’s initials set in diamonds in the living shell, and this slightly obscene object, now slipping impotently on the polished boards, now striding across the card-table, now lumbering over a rug, now withdrawn at a touch, now stretching its neck and swaying its withered, antediluvian head, became a memorable part of the evening, one of those needlehooks of experience which catch the attention when larger matters are at stake.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
20c. 1934 ADI walked down the empty Broad to breakfast, as I often did on Sundays, at a tea-shop opposite Balliol. The air was full of bells from the surrounding spires and the sun, casting long shadows across the open spaces, dispelled the fears of night. The tea-shop was hushed as a library; a few solitary men in bedroom slippers from Balliol and Trinity looked up as I entered, then turned back to their Sunday newspapers. I ate my scrambled eggs and bitter marmalade with the zest which in youth follows a restless night. I lit a cigarette and sat on, while one by one the Balliol and Trinity men paid their bills and shuffled away, slip-slop, across the street to their colleges. It was nearly eleven when I left, and during my walk I heard the change-ringing cease and, all over the town, give place to the single chime which warned the city that service was about to start.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
21c. 1934 ADThe problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
22c. 1934 ADI was thinking about honour. It's a thing that changes doesn't it? I mean, a hundred and fifty years ago we would have had to fight if challenged. Now we'd laugh. There must have been a time when it was rather an awkward question.""Yes. Moral theologians were never able to stop dueling -- it took democracy to do that.""And in the next war, when we are completely democratic, I expect that it will be quite honourable for officers to leave their men behind. It'll be laid down in King's Regulations as their duty-- to keep a cadre going to train new men to take the place of prisoners.""Perhaps men wouldn't take too kindly to being trained by deserters.""Don't you think that they'd respect them more for being fly? I reckon our trouble is that we're in the awkward stage -- like a man challenged to a duel a hundred years ago.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
23c. 1934 ADPeter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club. 'Most of war seems to consist of hanging about,' he said. 'Let's at least hang about with our own friends.Evelyn Waugh / quote ↗
