He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
- Evelyn Waugh
Instinct, Gifted, Passes, Sly
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
City, Very, Which, Convenient
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
- Evelyn Waugh
School, Four, Schools, First-Rate
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
- Evelyn Waugh
Cherish, Them, Ours, Amuse
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
- Evelyn Waugh
Art, Efforts, Symbol, Refrain
My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
- Evelyn Waugh
Seven, Equally, Despise, Unhealthy
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
- Evelyn Waugh
Desire, Aesthetic, Repressed
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
- Evelyn Waugh
Alone, Other, Use, Britons
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh
Curious, Which, Civilized, Promises
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
- Evelyn Waugh
Think, Like, I Think, Cliches
Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
- Evelyn Waugh
Old, Like, Finally, Old Maid
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
- Evelyn Waugh
News, About, Read, Chap
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
- Evelyn Waugh
Temper, Discretion, Must, Deceit
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- Evelyn Waugh
Time, Virtue, Punctuality, Bored
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
- Evelyn Waugh
Division, Static, Sexes, Ought
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.
- Evelyn Waugh
Need, Religious, Clergyman, Draws
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
- Evelyn Waugh
Die, Names, Needs, Forgets
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
Mind, Horrors, Tries, Human Mind
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
- Evelyn Waugh
Son, Happiest, Perhaps, Father And Son
I put the words down and push them a bit.
- Evelyn Waugh
Words, Them, Bit, Push
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
- Evelyn Waugh
Pleasure, Sooner, About, Dentist
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
- Evelyn Waugh
Craving, Read, Arresting, Unhealthy
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
- Evelyn Waugh
Need, Pretty, Away, Manners
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
- Evelyn Waugh
Get, Keep, Argue, Limitations
You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
- Evelyn Waugh
Never, England, Find, Englishman
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
Always, Delicate, Learned, Oblique
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
- Evelyn Waugh
Alone, Action, Your, Determines
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
- Evelyn Waugh
Ideas, Only, Poetic
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
- Evelyn Waugh
World, Dying, National, Vice
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
May, Them, Your, Contempt
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
- Evelyn Waugh
Country, Stop, Brought, Literature
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
Rest, Over, Needs, Bed
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
- Evelyn Waugh
Everyone, Younger, Been, Grows
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
- Evelyn Waugh
Woman, Before, Fit, Youth
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