Evelyn Waugh Zitate und Sprüche
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Reviewing World within World, the autobiography of Stephen Spender, in The Tablet (5 May 1951)
“But what am I to teach them?' said Paul in sudden panic.”
Decline and Fall (1928)
“Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.”
Decline and Fall (1928)
“Your action, and your action alone, determines your worth.”
Johann Gottlieb Fichte in The Vocation of Man [Die Bestimmung des Menschen] (1800), p. 94 : "You are here, not for idle contemplation of yourself, not for brooding over devout sensations — no, for action you are here; action, and action alone, determines your worth." [Nicht zum müßigen Beschauen und Betrachten deiner selbst, oder zum Brüten über andächtigen Empfindungen, — nein, zum Handeln bist du da; dein Handeln und allein dein Handeln bestimmt deinen Werth.]
Misattributed
“O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.”
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Quelle: Diary entry (March 1964), after hearing that doctors had removed a benign tumor from Randolph Churchill, quoted in The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Michael Davie (1976), p. 792
“Quomodo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
Epilogue
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
“My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.”
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Part 3, chapter 5, Lord Marchmain's dying soliloquy.
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Lord Copper, proprietor of the Daily Beast is a man to whom one never says 'No' directly. This is what one says instead.
Scoop (1938)
Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away."
First lines
Black Mischief (1932)
Letter to Lady Mosley (9 March 1966), quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (1980), p. 638
Letter to Monsignor McReavy (15 April 1965), quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (1980), p. 631
