7 Evelyn Waugh Quotes on Time

Evelyn Waugh quotes on time

13. It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.

19. Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

38. News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

43. 'I have been here before,' I said; I had been there before; first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudless day in June, when the ditches were creamy with meadowsweet and the air heavy with all the scents of summer; it was a day of peculiar splendour, and though I had been there so often, in so many moods, it was to that first visit that my heart returned on this, my latest.

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

50. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

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