{"author":"Evelyn Waugh","author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh","total_quotes":77,"quotes":[{"text":"Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["humour","travel","travel-writing"],"id":6635,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"},{"text":"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["bored","virtue","punctuality "],"id":17311,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"},{"text":"He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food… of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns… He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods… endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavor with flavor from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of brandy.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["food"],"id":19108,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"},{"text":"No one is ever holy without suffering.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["holy","suffering"],"id":22024,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"},{"text":"...For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["neurosis","new-york-city"],"id":42382,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"},{"text":"He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["bitterness","fatherhood","gratitude","parenthood","thought-life"],"id":44194,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"},{"text":"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.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["catholicism","faith","god","love"],"id":48129,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"},{"text":"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["human-condition","observation","satire"],"id":58606,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"},{"text":"Two wives despaired of him,’ he said. ‘When he got engaged to Sylvia, she made it a condition that he should take the cure at Zurich. And it worked. He came back in three months a different man. And he hasn't touched a drop since, even though Sylvia walked out on him.’ ‘Why did she do that?’Well, poor Charlie got rather a bore when he stopped drinking. But that’s not really the point of the story.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["alcohol","bore","drinking"],"id":66263,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"},{"text":"As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job — popularity. There are plenty of disadvantages I grant you, but you are liked and respected. Ring people up any hour of the day or night, butt into their houses uninvited make them answer a string of damn fool questions when they want to do something else — they like it. Always a smile and the best of everything for the gentlemen of the Press.","author":"Evelyn Waugh","tags":["journalism","journalists","reporters","reporting"],"id":66603,"author_id":"Evelyn+Waugh"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":77,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}