Evelyn Waugh

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.