A Handful of Dust Quotes

“You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.”
― Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

“It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.”
― Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

“Comparisons are odious.”
― Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

“Brenda descended the great staircase step by step through alternations of dusk and rainbow.”
― Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

“A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glades, no embroidered feet on the green sward; the cream and dappled unicorns had fled...”
― Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

“A wonderfully congenial group who live by a unique set of social standards. According to their rules, any sin is acceptable provided it is carried off in good taste.”
― Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

“A week of blue water that grew clearer and more tranquil daily, of sun that grew warmer, radiating the ship and her passengers, filling them with good humour and ease; blue water that caught the sun in a thousand brilliant points, dazzling the eyes as they searched for porpoises and flying fish; clear blue water in the shallows revealing its bed of silver sand and smooth pebble, fathoms down; soft warm shade on deck under the awnings; the ship moved amid unbroken horizons on a vast blue disc of blue, sparkling with sunlight.”
― Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

“Next day they were in the Atlantic. Ponderous waves rising over murky, opaque depths. Dappled with foam at the crests, like downland where on the high, exposed places, snow has survived the thaw. Lead-grey and slate in the sun, olive, field blue and khaki like the uniforms of a battlefield; the sky overhead was neutral and steely with swollen clouds scudding across it, affording rare half hours of sunlight. The masts swung slowly across this sky and the bows heaved and wallowed below the horizon.”
― Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust

“I don't know what it means, but I didn't mean it.”
― Evelyn Waugh, A Handful of Dust