Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic. — Allison Pearson
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist. — John Major
The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. — Oscar Wilde
You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel? — Oscar Wilde
I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture. — Dorothy Malone
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. — P. D. James
The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before. — Irving Stone
What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart? — William Makepeace Thackeray
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband. — Samuel Richardson
It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious. — Christopher Bailey
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. — Jane Austen
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. — Benedict Cumberbatch
The grumbling mother-in-law forgets that she once was a bride — Greek Proverbs
When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party? — Kabir
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret. — Alexander Theroux
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. — Arthur Symons
the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring. — Margaret Millar
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting. — Helen Rowland
'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. — Milan Kundera
Revisit Quotes
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it… it’s over. It can hurt you no more. — Mandy Hale
I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember. — Evelyn Waugh
An underappreciated programming skill is time estimation — not just communicating how long something should take you, but noticing when you've spent too long on a particular approach and should revisit. — Greg Brockman
Thinking again can help you generate new solutions to old problems and revisit old solutions to new problems. It’s a path to learning more from the people around you and living with fewer regrets. — Adam Grant
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
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom. — Evelyn Waugh
Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you. — Evelyn Waugh
Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them. — Henry David Thoreau
Always revisit your decisions in the light of new knowledge and information. Don't be afraid to change. — Chris Guillebeau
I have little interest in a surgeon who says, "I learned that when I was in medical school. Why should I revisit it?" or who says, "I've done that operation the same way for ten years. Don't bother me with new approaches." I see teaching in the same way. — Carol Ann Tomlinson
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
It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up. — Evelyn Waugh
We possess nothing certainly except the past — Evelyn Waugh
O God, make me good, but not yet. — Evelyn Waugh
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin. — Evelyn Waugh
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. — Evelyn Waugh
If it could only be like this always - always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper. — Evelyn Waugh
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm? — Evelyn Waugh
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. — 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
No one is ever holy without suffering. — 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
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are. — Evelyn Waugh
No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that. — Evelyn Waugh
He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...] — Evelyn Waugh
Oh God, make me good, but not yet. — SebastiAn
An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. — Robert Hughes
The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! — Evelyn Waugh
'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.' — 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
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me. — Evelyn Waugh
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty. — Evelyn Waugh
I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world. — Evelyn Waugh
It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based. — Evelyn Waugh
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past. — Evelyn Waugh
The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles — 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
I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a book that he's incredibly found of and he took certain structural influences from that book that he brought into The Magicians. — Hale Appleman
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