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 WaughMy children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
Evelyn WaughThey are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.
Evelyn WaughAll this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
Evelyn WaughThe Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G.K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.
Evelyn Waugh