Best Quotes by Evelyn Waugh (Top 10)

  1. Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
  2. Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
  3. After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.
  4. I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
  5. Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.
  6. But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.
  7. ... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
  8. He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.
  9. I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.
  10. [Change is] the only evidence of life.

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