Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
From Evelyn Waugh
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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.
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