# Quote — Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall

> I don't believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn't been told about it. It's like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn't been told it existed.

- Author: [Evelyn Waugh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh.md)
- Book: [Decline and Fall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/decline-and-fall.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/decline-and-fall/i-dont-believe

## More from this book

> I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/decline-and-fall/i-havent-been.md)

> Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/decline-and-fall/anyone-who-has.md)

> I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/decline-and-fall/i-came-to-the.md)