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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

— Evelyn Waugh The Loved One (1948)

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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

Put Out More Flags (1942)

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)

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

Officers and Gentlemen (1955)

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