Evelyn Waugh quotes - Page : 6

" Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole. " # Travel and Tourism

" "The Beast stands for strong mutually antagonistic governments everywhere," he said. "Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad." " # Government # Travel and Tourism # Love

" Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'. " # Empire

" He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. " # Adolescence # Wisdom # Wealth

" "I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house," " # Women # Love # Home

" "Up to a point, Lord Copper." " # Puns

" When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning. " # Twentieth Century # Death and Dying # Truth

" "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. " # Autumn # Love # Writers and Writing

" But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchaned garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city. " # Happiness # Love # Cities and City Life

" To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. " # Love