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Evelyn Waugh
That's the public-school...
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you...
He was gifted...
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the...
There are no...
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
Source: Books On Trial.
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Instead of this...
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and...
Particularly against books...
Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least...
There aren't many...
There aren't many left like him nowadays, what with education and whisky the price it is.
I came to...
I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic...
I'm one of...
I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
Source: Decline and...
Enclosing every thin...
Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.
Source:...
I think to...
I think to be oversensitive about clich?s is like being oversensitive about table manners.
We class schools...
We class schools you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School, Good School, and...
I haven't been...
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...
It is a...
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of...
I expect you'll...
I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does sir, that gets sent down for...
Don't give your...
Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't...
We schoolmasters must...
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
Source: Dr. Fagan, in Decline...
The human mind...
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it...
What is youth...
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
Source:...
Punctuality is the...
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Source: The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, 26 Mar...
Professional reviewers read...
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting...
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