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Evelyn Waugh Quotes: 8

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
Brideshead Revisited
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.
Vile Bodies
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.
Brideshead Revisited
No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder
The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him.Julia to Charles
Brideshead Revisited
Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.
Brideshead Revisited
Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth...distribution of energy...
Vile Bodies