8 Evelyn Waugh Quotes on Relationships

Evelyn Waugh quotes on relationships

2. All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

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.'

44. But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity 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 enchaned garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

51. '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 whcih turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.'

62. My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

66. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

73. We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

74. What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.