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  • Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

    Weather   Storm   Orphan  
  • 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.

    Art   Islands   Doe  
    Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”
  • 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.

    Men   Age   Bottles  
  • ...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?

    Sadness   Forever   Looks  
    Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”
  • I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

    Travel   Italian   Venice  
  • 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

    Mean   Needs   Mercy  
    Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.336, Penguin UK
  • My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

    Morning   Memories   War  
    Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”
  • But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity 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.

    Wall   Heart   Garden  
    Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.35, Penguin UK
  • We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

    "Diaries of Evelyn Waugh" by Evelyn Waugh, (p. 786), 1976.
  • O God, make me good, but not yet.

    "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.
  • No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.

    Hate   Saint   Want  
  • 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.

  • If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.

    Hate   Who I Am   Names  
  • The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

    Unique   Youth   Lost  
  • ... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

    Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.49, Penguin UK
  • All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

    Sex   Sleep   Together  
    Vile Bodies (1930) ch. 6
  • 'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

    "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder".
  • It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

    Pie   People   Matter  
    "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.
  • O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.

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

    Garden   Past   Museums  
  • The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.

  • Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.

    "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.
  • I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.

    Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.170, Penguin UK
  • I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

  • Oh God, make me good, but not yet.

  • He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]

    Joy   Failing   Lost  
  • If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper.

    Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.81, Penguin UK
  • 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.

    Unique   Zest   Self  
  • It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

    Evelyn Waugh, John Carmel Heenan, Alcuin Reid (2011). “A Bitter Trial: Evelyn Waugh and John Carmel Cardinal Heenan on the Liturgical Changes”, p.16, Ignatius Press
  • 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.

    "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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