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Vile Bodies

Name: Vile Bodies
Author: Evelyn Waugh

Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I.

“Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God.”

Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1

“After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.”

Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies

“There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.”

Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies

“I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.”

Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies

“I can't bare you when you're not amusing.”

Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies

“Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.”

Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies

“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”

Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies (1930)

“A copy of Dante's Purgatorio excited his especial disgust."French, eh?" he said. "I guessed as much, and pretty dirty too, I shouldn't wonder. Now just you wait while I look up these here books"—how he said it!—"in my list. Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside."”

Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 2

“Creative Endeavour lost her wings, Mrs. Ape.”

Evelyn Waugh book Vile Bodies

Source: Vile Bodies (1930), Chapter 1

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