Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. – Evelyn Waugh
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. – Evelyn Waugh
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – Evelyn Waugh
If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe… – Evelyn Waugh
Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that — the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart. – Baroness Emmuska Orczy