My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
Evelyn WaughI never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.
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 WaughThe Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.
Evelyn Waugh