Famous Quotes by Evelyn Waugh

Below are famous quotes by Evelyn Waugh - English novelist & satirist (1903 - 1966).

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

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

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

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