We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
Evelyn WaughProfessional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
Evelyn WaughOne has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.
Evelyn WaughIt is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.
Evelyn WaughHe wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.
Evelyn Waugh