It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. – Evelyn Waugh
If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… – Evelyn Waugh
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. – Evelyn Waugh
For — believe me — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into unchartered seas! – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), The Gay Science, “Book Four: St Januarius