Quote #19

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

More from Evelyn Waugh

  1. Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.
  2. You never find an Englishman among the underdogs - except in England, of course.
  3. I put the words down and push them a bit.
  4. Please bear in mind throughout that IT IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY.
  5. Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
  6. Mr. Sniggs, the Junior Dean, and Mr. Postlethwaite, the Domestic Bursar, sat alone in Mr. Sniggs's room overlooking the garden quad at Scon…
  7. A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.' Diary entry (March 1964), afte…
  8. I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

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