"[W]e possess nothing certainly except the past."
Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books; he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists
"I had warned my father that my viva might mean a second. It meant a third, and I was overcome with regret, not, I am ashamed to say, for the giddy nights, but for the sober ones. I had not done much work, but I had done some. Had I known I was only to get a third I would not have wasted my time."
"Chokey thinks religion is just divine."
"O God, make me good, but not yet"
"I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house…"
"Your action, and your action alone, determines your worth."
"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."