Evelyn Waugh

“We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.”

“Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.”

“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.”

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

“In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.”

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

“Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.”

“He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.”

“Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.”