Quote: Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: Other nations use force; we Britons alone use Might. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he attaches minor importance, that he defines it as the opinion of well-informed circles. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: 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. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: 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. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: 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. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: I put the words down and push them a bit. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic. [Evelyn Waugh]
Quote: Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost. [Evelyn Waugh]