Evelyn Waugh Zitate und Sprüche
Evelyn Waugh: Zitate auf Englisch
“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are”
Part 1, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
“I put the words down and push them a bit.”
As quoted in his obituary in The New York Times (11 April 1966)
“Please bear in mind throughout that IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY.”
Author's note
Decline and Fall (1928)
“That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.”
Decline and Fall (1928)
“There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.”
Decline and Fall (1928)
“Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.”
Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
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.
“We possess nothing certainly except the past.”
Part 3, start of chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
“Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.”
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
“Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs. Ape.”
Quelle: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1
“I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.”
Grimes
Decline and Fall (1928)
"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
