Evelyn Waugh Quotes
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Waugh, Evelyn. Brideshead Revisited. Chapman & Hall, 1945.
Then, as today, whenever a person was greedy rich, people might not approve of their ethics or morals, but the assumption was (not always warranted) that the person was smart and wise in the ways of making money, and very often people would generalize to other areas and think the money maker was generally sagacious.
Wants however often include abstract notions such as power.
Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
