The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Oh, I shouldn't try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Hooper was no romantic. He had not as a child ridden with Rupert's horse or sat among the camp fires at Xanthus-side;… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“We class schools, you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School, Good School, and School. Frankly," said Mr Levy, "School is… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The view implicit in my education was that the basic narrative of Christianity had long been exposed as a myth, and that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Sometimes," Helena continued, "I have a terrible dream of the future. Not now, but presently, people may forget their loyalty to their kings and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Rex has never been unkind to me intentionally. It's just that he isn't a real person at all; he's just a few faculties of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper... — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“My dear, I should like to stick you full of barbed arrows like a p-p-pin cushion...Where do you lurk? I shall come down your… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." --Cousin Jasper” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“It’s awful to think that I shall probably never, as long as I live, see you dancing like that again all by yourself.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
