"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
— Evelyn Waugh

"All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day."
— Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies)

"For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy."
— Evelyn Waugh

"The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed."
— Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited)

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis

"A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest."
— C.S. Lewis