Top 34 Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

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

I put the words down and push them a bit.

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

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

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.

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

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.

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

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.