The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold Quotes

“His strongest tastes were negative. He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing, and jazz--everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling of charity which came to him through his religion sufficed only to temper his disgust and change it to boredom. . . .”
― Evelyn Waugh, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

“At night his most frequent recurring dream was of doing The Times crossword puzzle; his most disagreeable that he was reading a tedious book aloud to his family.”
― Evelyn Waugh, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold