5 Evelyn Waugh Quotes on Irony

Evelyn Waugh quotes on irony

6. So the two of them went to London by the early morning train. 'Let's surprise her,' said Nigel, but Cedric telephoned first, wryly remembering the story of the pedantic adulterer - 'My dear, it is I who am surprised; you are astounded.'

15. A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.' Diary entry (March 1964), after hearing that doctors had removed a benign tumor from Randolph Churchill.

31. I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

34. As 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.

47. 'It is typical of Oxford,' I said, 'to start the new year in autumn.'