Quotes About Brideshead

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Oh God, make me good, but not yet.

SebastiAn

#5. The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our tissues were formed ages on ages ago; they have all persisted. Most of our organs are as old as worms. All these are very old, older than the mountains.

John M. Tyler

#6. I haven't actually seen a Lady Gaga tour, but I do think she's very good.

Kate Bush

#7. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Aesop

#8. He was little more than halfway down the staircase when he heard an all-piercing, sustained scream
clearly coming from a small, female child. It was highly acoustical, as though it were reverberating within four tiled walls.

J.D. Salinger

#9. Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.

Drake

#10. Sometimes not looking for something is the best way to look for it

Himanshu Chhabra

#11. The projects I have done on television, they're sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that's why they're labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they're sitcoms because they're situational comedies.

Jaime Camil

#12. Tho' much is taken, much abides;

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#13. I like when things are crazy. Something good comes out of exhaustion.

John Mulaney

#14. We possess nothing certainly except the past

Evelyn Waugh

#15. These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.

Dan Rather

#16. Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raise
themselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Charles Caleb Colton

#17. Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

Evelyn Waugh