"We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her."
- Cicero
"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act."
- Cicero
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
- Cicero
"Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all."
- Evelyn Waugh
"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."
- Evelyn Waugh
"I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember."
- Evelyn Waugh
"If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper..."
- Evelyn Waugh
"Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?"
- Evelyn Waugh
"No one is ever holy without suffering."
- Evelyn Waugh
"I have left behind illusion,' I said to myself. 'Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions - with the aid of my five senses.'
I have since learned that there is no such world, but then, as the car turned out of sight of the house, I thought it took no finding, but lay all about me at the end of the avenue."