Delight Quote by Evelyn Waugh

“A man who has suffered some humiliation invents a theory that he is King of England, and develops all kinds of ingenious explanations of…

— Bertrand Russell

“He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must…

— David Hume

“He was full of ironical admiration of his childishness and innocence in letting a wandering and characterless and scandalous American load him up with…

— Mark Twain

“He was an unpleasant sort of character, professionally indignant, who'd built up his whole career abroad, selling our national horrors to European readers. Misery…

— José Eduardo Agualusa

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It was clear he had remained unflustered by recent public events, at the age he had reached perhaps disillusioned with the commonplaces of life;…

— Anthony Powell

“There must surely be much more to be said than the mere recounting of an incident: about the loves and hates of my people;…

— Es'kia Mphahlele

“essential moral weakness of this narcissist had been clearly shown in the manner in which he had subdued his indignation at the betrayal ……

— Ann Tusa

Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or…

— Samuel Johnson

“Behind his careful political flippancy and cynicism one might also detect a certain careless sincerity, which would probably in the long run save him…

— Hector Hugh Munro

“Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he…

— George Orwell