Evelyn Waugh Book Quotations

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.