Famous quotes containing the words evelyn waugh, waugh and/or biography:
“Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
“The impersonal insensitive friendliness which takes the place of ceremony in that land of waifs and strays.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
“The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)