October 28: Evelyn Waugh

Quotes from Evelyn Waugh, born this date in 1903:

1. Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
2. Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.
3. Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
4. We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
5. Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
6. Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
7. What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
8. Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
9. Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
10. No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including all the lost books and the ones that the authors burned when they came back from the last publisher.