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- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)
“I suppose they try to make you believe an awful lot of nonsense?” “Is it nonsense? I wish it were. It sometimes sounds terribly sensible to me.” “But my dear Sebastian, you can’t seriously believe it all.” “Can’t I?” “I mean about Christmas and the star and the three kings and the ox and the ass.” “Oh yes, I believe that. It’s a lovely idea.” “But you can’t believe things because they’re a lovely idea.” “But I do. That’s how I believe.”
— Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
“Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things - trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Aslan to lead it. I’m going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn’t any Narnia.”
— The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
“Do you think all beauty is just the evidence of things not seen, David?” she had asked. “If it’s anything it’s that,” he had said. “I should say that faith is the belief in something that you don’t understand yet, and beauty is the evidence that the thing is there.”
— The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge
Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews in Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Anthony Andrews, Brideshead Revisited, 1980
"Brideshead revisited" starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews (1980)
reading classic lit is like: *underlines gay parts* *underlines gay parts* *underlines gay parts* *underlines gay parts* *underlines gay par
If only it could be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe.
Brideshead Revisited (2008) dir. Julian Jarrold
It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you a pigeon pie and eat you up.
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
O God make me good, but not yet.
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
And this is a string of pearls on a white neck. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (2008)
And this is a string of pearls on a white neck. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (2008)
Sometimes I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present…
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via alittlebitoflace)