431 Quotes by 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.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

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.

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

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

[Change is] the only evidence of life.

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

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.