Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

- Evelyn Waugh

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

- Evelyn Waugh

A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowled…

- Evelyn Waugh

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

- Evelyn Waugh

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

- Evelyn Waugh

Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding pres…

- Evelyn Waugh

No one is ever holy without suffering.

- Evelyn Waugh

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

- Evelyn Waugh

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

- Evelyn Waugh