Quotes By Evelyn Waugh

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

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.