"Brideshead Revisited" Quotes

I am not I: thou art not he or she: they are not they.

I’ve been for some time in the baroque, and I think it’s the best thing for one.

Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I was old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

You can’t expect to be happy all the time. You’ve got to be unhappy sometimes.

I had been brought up to think of a woman as the emblem of elegance.

I have loved you. I did my best.

I sometimes think that if a man could understand all the horror of a woman’s life, he would be aghast; and if he were a good man, he would help her with all the strength of his soul and aegis of his arms, even at the cost of his own happiness.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

I have been here before, and there is a strange familiarity. It is as if a dream I had, part of a recurrent dream, were come true, or as if I had been here before. It is the same, yet not the same.