Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Evelyn Waugh — English Author born on October 28, 1903, died on April 10, 1966

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, known by his pen name Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, biographies and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and reviewer of books. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall and A Handful of Dust, the novel Brideshead Revisited and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour. As a writer, Evelyn Waugh is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century... (wikipedia)

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

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

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

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.