Evelyn Waugh Quotes on Life

5 quotes

  1. Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

  2. I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

  3. '...I wonder if you remember the story mummy read us the evening Sebastian first got drunk - I mean the bad evening. 'Father Brown' said something like 'I caught him' (the thief) 'with an unseen hook and and invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.''[1]

  4. Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

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

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