Evelyn Waugh Quotes About Literature
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
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I put the words down and push them a bit.
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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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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.
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You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
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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.
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We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
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