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.

Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

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

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

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

To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.