Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Life isn't that complicated on paper. It's made more complex by the day and age we live.

It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem.

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air.

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

Now people are celebrated for being obsessive.

In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas endured profound rearrangements and is perhaps on the brink of enduring yet others, where so many threatening and new problems appear everywhere, you will admit it may be demanded of a writer that he be more than a fine wit who makes us forget in idle and byzantine discussions on the merits of pure form.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

In this day and age, there's just so much that can hyperstimulate us, and curiously, it is not satisfying us.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways.

An illicit love affair seems sweetly old-fashioned in the age of one night stands and orgies.

It is difficult to discuss... history.. it is more difficult to talk about today.. simple things…

Why didn't Eternity have this deformed age aborted ? Its birthmark is the stamp of a newspaper, its medium is printer's ink, and in its veins flows ink.

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.

The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.