10 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: January 26, 2023

Find and rate the best quotes from Evelyn Waugh's works, selected from famous or less known movies, plays and other sources, featuring short audio clips in MP3 and WAV formats.

1 Well, I did say only last week that all the loved ones that come from Mr. Joyboy have the most beautiful smiles.

Anjanette Comer as Aimée Thanatogenos in The Loved One (1965)

2 They told me you were hung... With red protruding eyeballs... And black protruding tongue.

Robert Morse as Dennis Barlow in The Loved One (1965)

3 I'm afraid my memory's very bad for live faces.

Anjanette Comer as Aimée Thanatogenos in The Loved One (1965)

4 Tell me, what do you think about when you're out here all by yourself? -Oh, just... Death and art.

Quote from The Loved One (1965)

5 An American would despise himself for living off his wife. -But you see, I'm English. And we have none of these prejudices in the old and more developed civilizations.

Quote from The Loved One (1965)

6 They talk entirely for their own pleasure, and they never expect you to listen. Just remember that, dear boy. It's the secret of social ease in this country.

John Gielgud as Sir Francis Hinsley in The Loved One (1965)

7 May I help you, sir? -Yes. I came to arrange about a funeral. -Is the funeral for yourself? -I beg your pardon? No. -I thought you might have come for pre-need counseling. Many of our friends like to plan ahead.

Robert Morse as Dennis Barlow in The Loved One (1965)

8 And now 'tis here... You'll lie. Here... Pickled in formaldehyde and... Painted like a whore...

Robert Morse as Dennis Barlow in The Loved One (1965)

9 Hogmanay? what's that? -People throwing up in the streets of Glasgow.

Robert Morse as Dennis Barlow in The Loved One (1965)

10 Is he quite hard? -Firm. -May I touch him? -Please do not. It leaves a Mark.

Quote from The Loved One (1965)

10 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh (Sound Clips)

1 Well, I did say only last week that all the loved ones that come from Mr. Joyboy have the most beautiful smiles.

2 They told me you were hung... With red protruding eyeballs... And black protruding tongue.

3 I'm afraid my memory's very bad for live faces.

4 Tell me, what do you think about when you're out here all by yourself? -Oh, just... Death and art.

5 An American would despise himself for living off his wife. -But you see, I'm English. And we have none of these prejudices in the old and more developed civilizations.

6 They talk entirely for their own pleasure, and they never expect you to listen. Just remember that, dear boy. It's the secret of social ease in this country.

7 May I help you, sir? -Yes. I came to arrange about a funeral. -Is the funeral for yourself? -I beg your pardon? No. -I thought you might have come for pre-need counseling. Many of our friends like to plan ahead.

8 And now 'tis here... You'll lie. Here... Pickled in formaldehyde and... Painted like a whore...

9 Hogmanay? what's that? -People throwing up in the streets of Glasgow.

10 Is he quite hard? -Firm. -May I touch him? -Please do not. It leaves a Mark.

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