If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to ''a semi-official statement'' if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as ''a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable.'' It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of ''well-informed circles.''
More Quotes from Evelyn Waugh:
There aren't many left like him nowadays, what with education and whisky the price it is.Evelyn Waugh
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
Evelyn Waugh
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
Evelyn Waugh
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
Evelyn Waugh
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Evelyn Waugh
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Evelyn Waugh
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Journalism Quotes, Opinions QuotesBased on Keywords: conscientiously, postman, unimpeachable, well-informed
Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.
Rem Koolhaas
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
Robert E. Howard
I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
Clive Owen