Evelyn Waugh
10 quotations
Other nations use force; we Britons alone use Might.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.