Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder Quotes

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.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.''I don't think he is, ' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

I’ve always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can’t shut myself out from His mercy.

My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.

...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.