Of children as of procreation— the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.


Letter to Nancy Mitford, May 5, 1954, cited from Mark Amory (ed.) The Letters of Evelyn Waugh (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) p. 423

Evelyn Waugh Quotes

Of children as of procreation— the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

Of children as of procreation— the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

Of children as of procreation— the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

Of children as of procreation— the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.