A Handful of Dust QUOTES

1 " 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

3 " Comparisons are odious. "

― Evelyn Waugh , A Handful of Dust

5 " Brenda descended the great staircase step by step through alternations of dusk and rainbow. "

― Evelyn Waugh , A Handful of Dust

7 " 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