"A Handful of Dust" Quotes
By Evelyn Waugh
fiction | 328 pages | Published in 2012
Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this "absolutely delightful" novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World War I. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. In a novel that combines tragedy, comedy, and savage irony, Evelyn Waugh indelibly captures the irresponsible mood of the "crazy and sterile generation" between the wars.
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Quotes
Living is one long process of getting tired.
Civilization is a pleasant thing, but it's not worth dying for.
You young people think the old days were easy. Well, let me tell you, they weren't. We had problems too, but we got on with it.
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
Sometimes, the outside world has a way of braking a man inside, no matter how strong he is.
We are all alone born alone die alone and all that life goes on and on.
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as often, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
As we live more and more people in the world, we becoming more and more alike.
Solitude's one thing, but you can't let your imagination get the better of you.
All good things must come to an end; this is one of the curses of being me.
