Evelyn Waugh Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: October 28, 1903 - April 10, 1966
Birthday: October 28
Death: April 10
I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
source: Evelyn Waugh (1964). “Scoop: a novel”
topic: Facts, Ornaments, Grit, Embryos
