Quote #57

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

More from Evelyn Waugh

  1. I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
  2. In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
  3. Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
  4. It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
  5. '...But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable - like things in the school-room, so bad they were unpunishable, that only mummy could…
  6. Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
  7. O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
  8. 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.

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