Evelyn Waugh Quotes


Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.


Citations

Waugh, Evelyn. Helena. Chapman & Hall, 1950.

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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.