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.
Evelyn Waugh

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

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh

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

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.
Evelyn Waugh

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
Evelyn Waugh

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.
Evelyn Waugh

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

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

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
Evelyn Waugh

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

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

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

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