Evelyn Waugh Quotes | Fat Tony's

"Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all."

- Evelyn Waugh

"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."

- Evelyn Waugh

"I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember."

- Evelyn Waugh

"If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper..."

- Evelyn Waugh

"Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?"

- Evelyn Waugh

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

- Evelyn Waugh

"I have left behind illusion,' I said to myself. 'Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions - with the aid of my five senses.' I have since learned that there is no such world, but then, as the car turned out of sight of the house, I thought it took no finding, but lay all about me at the end of the avenue."

- Evelyn Waugh

"The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!"

- Evelyn Waugh

"But you can't believe things because they're a lovely idea? But I do. That's how I believe."

- Evelyn Waugh