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Evelyn Waugh

The British novelist and traditionalist Catholic Evelyn Waugh is often considered a traditionalist conservative.

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Famous quotes by evelyn waugh:

    “Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and conversation and imperfect, various humanity. Limbo for the unbaptized, for the pious heathen, the sincere sceptic.”
    —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)

    “We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.”
    —Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

    “In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.”
    —Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)

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