Quotes from book
The Loved One

Name: The Loved One
Author: Evelyn Waugh

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.

“Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.”

Evelyn Waugh book The Loved One

Source: The Loved One

“Tomorrow and on every anniversary as long as the Happier Hunting Ground existed a postcard would go to Mr. Joyboy: Your little Aimée is wagging her tail in heaven tonight, thinking of you.”

Evelyn Waugh book The Loved One

Source: The Loved One (1948), Chapter 10

“You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs—except in England, of course.”

Evelyn Waugh book The Loved One

Source: The Loved One (1948), Chapter 1

“All day the heat had been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the West, blowing from the heart of the setting sun and from the ocean, which lay unseen, unheard behind the scrubby foothills. It shook the rusty fringes of palm-leaf and swelled the dry sounds of summer, the frog-voices, the grating cicadas, and the ever present pulse of music from the neighbouring native huts.”

Evelyn Waugh book The Loved One

First lines
The Loved One (1948)

“In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.”

Evelyn Waugh book The Loved One

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.