Quotes from book

Put Out More Flags

“It is a curious thing… that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.”

Evelyn Waugh book Put Out More Flags

Source: Put Out More Flags (1942), Ch. 1: Autumn, § 7

“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.”

Evelyn Waugh book Put Out More Flags

Source: Put Out More Flags (1942), Ch. 1 : Autumn, § 7

“So the two of them went to London by the early morning train. 'Let's surprise her,' said Nigel, but Cedric telephoned first, wryly remembering the story of the pedantic adulterer - 'My dear, it is I who am surprised; you are astounded.”

Evelyn Waugh book Put Out More Flags

Source: Put Out More Flags (1942), Ch. 3 : Spring