After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

— Evelyn Waugh

Ah well, to the journalist every country is rich.

— Evelyn Waugh

All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

— Evelyn Waugh

...anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul-destroying.

— Evelyn Waugh

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

— Evelyn Waugh

As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job — popularity. There are plenty of disadvantages I grant you, but you are liked and respected. Ring people up any hour of the day or night, butt into their houses uninvited make them answer a string of damn fool questions when they want to do something else — they like it. Always a smile and the best of everything for the gentlemen of the Press.

— Evelyn Waugh

As my intimacy with his family grew, I became part of the world which he sought to escape; I became one of the bonds which held him.

— Evelyn Waugh

As there was no form of government common to the peoples thus segregated, nor tie of language, history, habit or belief, they were called a Republic.

— Evelyn Waugh

At a banquet given in his honor Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of "getting up earlier than the other fellow." But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers.

— Evelyn Waugh

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mot tram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.'' I don't think he is,' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people

— Evelyn Waugh