[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.

the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.