Evelyn Waugh Quote

After Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill, had an operation for the removal of a tumor on the lung that was non-malignant:

It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.


Michael Davie (ed.) Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976) 'Irregular Notes 1960–65', March 1964


It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

It was a typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.