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.
EVELYN WAUGHMoney 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.
EVELYN WAUGHThe trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
EVELYN WAUGHPunctuality is the virtue of the bored.
EVELYN WAUGHI should like to bury something precious in every place where I’ve been happy and then, when I’m old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.
EVELYN WAUGHConversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
EVELYN WAUGHYou have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.
EVELYN WAUGHI can’t bare you when you’re not amusing.
EVELYN WAUGHIt is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
EVELYN WAUGHI prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
EVELYN WAUGHRemember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.
EVELYN WAUGHThere is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
EVELYN WAUGHWords should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
EVELYN WAUGHPerhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
EVELYN WAUGHWhat is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
EVELYN WAUGHInstead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
EVELYN WAUGHWhere can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
EVELYN WAUGH