“[Change is] the only evidence of life.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Evelyn Waugh [ˈiːvlɪn ˈwoː], né à Londres le 28 octobre 1903, mort à Taunton dans le Somerset le 10 avril 1966, est un écrivain britannique ; il se caractérise par sa pratique très pure et raffinée de la langue anglaise et par son style sarcastique. Le critique américain Edmund Wilson voit en lui « le seul véritable génie comique paru en anglais depuis George Bernard Shaw ». Wikipedia

“[Change is] the only evidence of life.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”
Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
Evelyn Waugh livre The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold
Source: The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold (1957), Chapter 1
“Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God.”
Evelyn Waugh livre Vile Bodies
Source: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1
Evelyn Waugh livre Brideshead Revisited
Part 1, Chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Evelyn Waugh livre A Handful of Dust
"No one I am thankful to say," said Mrs. Beaver, "except two housemaids who lost their heads and jumped through a glass roof into the paved court."
First lines
A Handful of Dust (1934)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.”
Part 2, Chapter 3
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”
Evelyn Waugh livre Vile Bodies
Source: Vile Bodies
“In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.”
Evelyn Waugh livre The Loved One
Source: The Loved One (1948), Chapter 9
Contexte: In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“O God, make me good, but not yet”
Part 1, start of chapter 5
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“To understand all is to forgive all.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“No one is ever holy without suffering.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.”
Evelyn Waugh livre Vile Bodies
Source: Vile Bodies
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.”
Part 1, Chapter 1
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”
Evelyn Waugh livre Vile Bodies
Source: Vile Bodies (1930)
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder
“His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder