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Evelyn Waugh Quotes


Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.