Archives for April 26, 2021

Evelyn Waugh is interviewed by John Freeman on a 1953 episode of Face to Face, originally telecast by the BBC:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.”

Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall