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

- Evelyn Waugh

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

- Evelyn Waugh

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.

- Evelyn Waugh

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.

- Evelyn Waugh

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.

- Evelyn Waugh

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

- Evelyn Waugh

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

- Evelyn Waugh

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

- Evelyn Waugh

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

- Evelyn Waugh

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

- Evelyn Waugh

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

- Evelyn Waugh

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

- Evelyn Waugh

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

- Evelyn Waugh

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

- Evelyn Waugh

I put the words down and push them a bit.

- Evelyn Waugh

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

- Evelyn Waugh

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

- Evelyn Waugh

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

- Evelyn Waugh

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

- Evelyn Waugh

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

- Evelyn Waugh