Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited1981

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryde… more »



[very drunk, Sebastian has just leaned in through Charles's window and vomited copiously on the floor]

Old Etonian at Window:
I trust that you will forgive my friend. The wines were too various. It was neither the quality nor the quantity that was at fault - it was the mixture. Grasp that and you have the very root of the matter. To understand all is to forgive all.

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