Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Tag: Evelyn Waugh
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
It is a curious thing … that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
Of children as of procreation – the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.