Traditionalist Conservatism - Literary Traditionalists - Evelyn Waugh

Famous quotes by evelyn waugh:

“They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don’t expect you to listen.... It’s the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

“Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

“Other nations use ‘force’; we Britons alone use ‘Might.’”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

“If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ‘a semi-official statement’; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as ‘a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable.’ It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of ‘well-informed circles.’”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)