Brideshead Revisited Quotes - Page 2

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Ignorant, Trouble, Modern

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Morning, Memories, War

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Unique, Zest, Self

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• He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Men, Age, Bottles

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• Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Art, Islands, Doe

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• We possess nothing certainly except the past

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wisdom, Past

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• ...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

  Evelyn Waugh

  Sadness, Forever, Looks

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Childhood, Phrases, Veils

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles

  Evelyn Waugh

  Mean, Needs, Mercy

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.336, Penguin UK

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• Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Fall, Missing, Bangs

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  If There Is A God, Forgiving, Sin

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Sex, Sleep, Together

  Vile Bodies (1930) ch. 6

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

  Evelyn Waugh

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  "Diaries of Evelyn Waugh" by Evelyn Waugh, (p. 786), 1976.

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• An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

  Robert Hughes

  Garden, Past, Museums

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• If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Reading, Book, Differences

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• I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a book that he's incredibly found of and he took certain structural influences from that book that he brought into The Magicians.

  Hale Appleman

  Book, Inspiration, Thinking

  "Why Eliot on The Magicians Is the Fantasy Character We've All Been Waiting For". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. February 9, 2016.

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