“I go to Rome for Easter (Grand Hotel) to avoid the horrors of the English liturgy.”

— Evelyn Waugh

Letter to Ann Fleming (3 March 1964), quoted in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (1980), p. 618

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