Evelyn Waugh

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. ”

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son. ”

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ”

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally. ”

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