Quotes About Waugh

Trevor-Roper never granted Waugh intellectual respect, but did acknowledge that in face-to-face confrontations he could not win, owing to Waugh's superior rudeness.

I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

At any rate it seems unlikely that there is any truth in the rumour as I have just this moment invented it.

I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does, sir, that gets sent down for indecent behavior.

If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe...

and it is said that Waugh's witnessing numerous blunders and acts of overt cowardice there soured him permanently on the army, the war, and the pretense of high purpose claimed by both.