Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Evelyn Waugh

I put the words down and push them a bit.
Evelyn Waugh

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

Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
Evelyn Waugh

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

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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

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