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We possess nothing certainly except the past ~ Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
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. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
Something quite remote from anything the builders intended has come out of their work, and out of the fierce little human tragedy in which I played; something none of us thought about at the time: a small red flame
a beaten-copper lamp of deplorable design, relit before the beaten-copper doors of a tabernacle; the flame which the old knights saw from their tombs, which they saw put out; that flame burns again for other soldiers, far from home, farther, in heart, than Acre or Jerusalem. It could not have been lit but for the builders and the tragedians, and there I found it this morning, burning anew among the old stones. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! ~ Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
When people hate with all that energy, it is something in themselves they are hating. Alex is hating all the illusions of boyhood - innocence, God, hope. Poor Lady Marchmain has to bear all that. He loved me for a time, quite a short time, as a man loves his own strength; it is simpler for a woman; she has not all these ways of loving. Now Alex is very fond of me and I protect him from his own innocence. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
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
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
But I had no patience with this convent chatter. I had felt the brush take life in my hand that afternoon; I had had my finger in the great, succulent pie of creation. I was a man of the Renaissance that evening- of Browning's renaissance. I, who had walked the streets of Rome in Genoa velvet and had seen the stars through Galileo's tube, spurned the friars, with their dusty tomes, and their sunken, jealous eyes and their crabbed hair-splitting speech. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
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 ... Or 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. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
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
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm? ~ Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
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
Brideshead quotes by 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. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
These memories, which are my life
for we possess nothing certainly except the past
were always with me. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. ~ Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead quotes by Evelyn Waugh
Oh God, make me good, but not yet. ~ SebastiAn
Brideshead quotes by SebastiAn
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