Evelyn Waugh Quotes

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

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances. - 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

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

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down. - Evelyn Waugh

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. - Evelyn Waugh

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - 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

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

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. - Evelyn Waugh

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