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Brideshead Quotes
- Love/ Friendship
- 'Sebastian had disappeared into that
other life of hi where I was not asked to
follow, and I was left, instead, forlorn
and regretful
- Blanche: 'You musn't blame Sebastian for being insipid'
Charles: I thought I hated him
- Seb: 'We'll have a heavenly time alone'
- Cara: 'Romantic friendships of
English and German. They're not
Latin'
- 'The kind of love that comes to children before they
know it's meaning'
- 'The kind of love that comes to children before they
know it's meaning'
- He did not fail in love, but he lost
his joy of it, for I was no longer
part of his solitude.
- As my intimacy with his family grew I became part
of the world which he sought to escape; I became
one of the bonds which held him.
- As my intimacy with his family grew I became part
of the world which he sought to escape; I became
one of the bonds which held him.
- Charles and Sebastian contra mundum'
- 'Sebastian had disappeared into that
other life of hi where I was not asked to
follow, and I was left, instead, forlorn
and regretful
- Religion
- 'When people wanted to hate God they'd hate Mummy'
- He used to spend such a time in the confessional, I
used to wonder what he had to say, because he never
did anything wrong; never quite; at least, he never got
punished.
- 'You can't believe things because they're a lovely idea'
'But I do, that's how I believe'
- It may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up
this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite
despair of me in the end
- 'When people wanted to hate God they'd hate Mummy'
- Youth/ Loss/ Regret
- He was magically beautiful, with that epicene quality which in
extreme youth sings aloud for love and withers at the first cold wind
- Our wisdom, we prefer to think, is all of our own gathering,
while, if the truth be told, it is, most of it, the last coin of a
legacy that dwindles with time
- The languor of Youth – how unique and
quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably,
lost
- "I have left behind illusion," I said to myself. "Henceforth I live in a
world of three dimensions – with the aid of my five senses."
- 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.
- Johnjohn who made him see reason about that girl;
seriously, you know, he's frightfully sharp
- Like Cordelia, youth = wisdom
- Like Cordelia, youth = wisdom
- He was magically beautiful, with that epicene quality which in
extreme youth sings aloud for love and withers at the first cold wind
- Anti- Pastoral
- 'fearing it was too simple for Rex, I added Caviar au blinis'
- 'I rejoiced in the Burgandy. It was a reminder
that the world was older and better place than
Rex knew'
- 'fearing it was too simple for Rex, I added Caviar au blinis'
- Misc
- 'You'd think him so English,
Marchmain. Full of hate'
- When people hate with so much energy it is
something in themselves they are hating
- Critics
- 'The books excesses are a big part of it's charm'
- Orwell: 'As popular a writer
can be with untenable ideas'
- 'The books excesses are a big part of it's charm'
- Waugh: 'Only when one has lost all
curiosity about the future has one
reached the age to write an
autobiography'
- St Sebastian
- 'You'd think him so English,
Marchmain. Full of hate'
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