God does like dunces

There is no doubt that God does like dunces, repugnant as it is. I think it is like the lower classes—everyone loves the simple gaffer until he starts telling us what he heard on The Brain Trust the evening before. We are all very lower class to God and our cleverness and second-hand scholarship bore him hideously.

Evelyn Waugh, letter

I think the bit about boring God hideously is a reflection of Waugh and not of God, who is never bored by his creations ... however much they may bore us personally! But I do like the overall point.