Quotes from book
The Loved One
The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy is a short, satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry.
“You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs—except in England, of course.”
Source: The Loved One (1948), Chapter 1
First lines
The Loved One (1948)
“In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.”
Source: The Loved One (1948), Chapter 9
Context: 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.
