Evelyn Waugh

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth. ”

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. ”

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. ”