Quote #64
Of children as of procreation- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable.
More from Evelyn Waugh
- Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
- One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
- My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.
- Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
- 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 …
- Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
- Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.