Evelyn Waugh Zitate

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Quelle: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 2

Part 1, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

Part One, Chapter XII
Decline and Fall (1928)

Quelle: Put Out More Flags (1942), Ch. 1: Autumn, § 7

Decline and Fall (1928)

Decline and Fall (1928)

Part 3, Chapter 4
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

As quoted in his obituary in The New York Times (11 April 1966)

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

Author's note
Decline and Fall (1928)

Decline and Fall (1928)

Decline and Fall (1928)

As quoted in LIFE magazine (8 April 1946)

Decline and Fall (1928)

Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

Scoop (1938)

Letter to Nancy Mitford, May 5, 1954, cited from Mark Amory (ed.) The Letters of Evelyn Waugh (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) p. 423
"The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable" is sometimes attributed to Lord Chesterfield (British statesman, diplomat and wit, 1694-1773), but has not been found in his works.

Decline and Fall (1928)

Part 3, start of chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)

An oft-quoted example of William Boot's style. When first mentioned in the novel it is "splashy" and not "plashy", but this is a remembrance of another journalist; when Boot himself quotes it, he has "plashy".
Scoop (1938)

Quelle: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957), Chapter 1

Mr Prendergast, Part One , Chapter IV
Decline and Fall (1928)

Decline and Fall (1928)

Quelle: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1

Scoop (1938)

Decline and Fall (1928)

Grimes
Decline and Fall (1928)

Opening lines
Scoop (1938)

"Is Oxford Worth the Money?", Sunday Dispatch, 10 July 1938, page 12. Quoted in "The Sayings of Evelyn Waugh", edited by Donat Gallagher, Duckworth Sayings Series