Evelyn Waugh Quotes


I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.


Citations

Waugh, Evelyn. The Loved One. Chapman & Hall, 1948.

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Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh
  • Born: October 28, 1903
  • Died: April 10, 1966
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Writer

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.