An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Evelyn WaughThe most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.
Evelyn WaughMost writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.
Evelyn WaughI regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
Evelyn Waugh