Put Out More Flags Quotes

“In the week which preceded the outbreak of the Second World War – days of surmise and apprehension which cannot, without irony, be called the last days of peace – and on the Sunday morning when all doubts were finally resolved and misconceptions corrected, three rich women thought first and mainly of Basil Seal.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags

“Edith and Olive and me have talked it over and we want to go and make aeroplanes.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags

“It was his misfortune to be respected as a writer by almost everyone except those with whom he most consorted.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags

“he was misanthropic and gifted with that sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich; his indolence was qualified with enough basic bad temper to ensure the respect of those about him”
― Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags

“Blücher, pushing himself forward with typical Prussian effrontery to share the glory which the other had won)”
― Evelyn Waugh, Put Out More Flags