Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.

Quote by Evelyn Waugh

Topics: Manners Quotes

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get...

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get...

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to...

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to...

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite...

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite...

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary...

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary...

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried...

The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried...

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

Read books. They are good for us.

Read books. They are good for us.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not...

Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not...

A book is a storehouse carried in the pocket

A book is a storehouse carried in the pocket

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration,...

Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration,...

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

No more teachers, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks.

No more teachers, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are...

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that...

We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient; that...

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while...

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while...