She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. – Evelyn Waugh
Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh
If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… – Evelyn Waugh
Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling. – George Gordon, Lord Byron