What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit t... by Evelyn Waugh

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

Evelyn Waugh

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My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

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An artist must be a reactionary by Evelyn Waugh

An artist must be a reactionary

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Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no tel... by Evelyn Waugh

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

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They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.

secret country people

...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

people looks needs

If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

venice museums art

My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

advice father son

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

names reason sound

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.

family parent son

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

idiotic excuse thinking

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.

titles mind book

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

gleam easter art

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.

past art thinking

"We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim..." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away."

running morning art

... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.

denial hardship self

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring... by Evelyn Waugh

Free as air; that's what they say- "free as air". Now they bring me my air in an iron barrel.

barrels iron air

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such... by Evelyn Waugh

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

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You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

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'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

brideshead-revisited evidence change

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long wor... by Evelyn Waugh

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.

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