If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

Evelyn Waugh

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

We are American at puberty. We die French.

We are American at puberty. We die French.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

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.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

O God, make me good, but not yet.

O God, make me good, but not yet.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

We possess nothing certainly except the past

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.

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

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

What good is money if it can't buy happiness?

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.