Words matter. These are the best Evelyn Waugh Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
I put the words down and push them a bit.
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
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.
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
Other nations use ‘force’; we Britons alone use ‘Might’.
If we can’t stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
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.
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
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.
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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.
It is a curious thing… that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
One forgets words as one forgets names. One’s vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I’d sooner go to my dentist any day.
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.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
