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Quotes from Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh

1903–1966 England

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14 quotes

To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

Sebastian entered — dove-grey flannel, white crepe-de-Chine shirt, a Charvet tie, my tie as it happened, a pattern of postage stamps.

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are

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Quomodo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

[W]e possess nothing certainly except the past.

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I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

O God, make me good, but not yet

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

'...But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable - like things in the school-room, so bad they were unpunishable, that only mummy could deal with - the bad thing I was on the point of doing, that I'm not quite bad enough to do; to set up a rival good to God's.'

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

When I reached C Company lines, which were at the top of the hill, I paused and looked back at the camp, just coming into full view below me through the grey mist of early morning.

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiousity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Evelyn Waugh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.