Evelyn WaughThinkers

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

Athens is permeated by the smell of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas, and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

Co-authorship is like three people getting together to have a baby... one of them is superfluous.

Crime is almost always due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

The Dream is always egocentric.

The Englishman is never found among the underdogs - except in England, of course.

A Friend is cherished not for their ability to amuse us. but for ours to amuse them.

Literature is simply the appropriate use of language.

Manners is what are especially the needs of the plain - the pretty can get away with anything.

The News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read, and it's only news until he's read it, after which it's dead.