Brideshead Revisited (TV Mini Series)
Et in Arcadia Ego (1981)
Jeremy Irons: Charles Ryder
Quotes
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Charles Ryder : Each as he came into the room made first for the plovers' eggs, then noticed Sebastian and then myself with a polite lack of curiosity which seemed to say: "We should not dream of being so offensive as to suggest that you never met us before."
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Charles Ryder : I believed myself very close to heaven during those languid days at Brideshead. It is thus I like to remember Sebastian, as he was that summer when we wandered alone through that enchanted palace.
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[first lines]
Charles Ryder : Here, at the age of 39, I began to be old. As I lay in that dark hour, I was aghast to realize that something within me, long sickening, had quietly died.
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Charles Ryder : It was as though someone had switched on the wireless and a voice that had been bawling in my ears, incessantly, fatuously, for days beyond number, had been suddenly cut short. An immense silence followed, empty at first, but gradually filled with a multitude of sweet, natural and long forgotten sounds. For he had spoken a name that was so familiar to me, a conjuror's name of such ancient power, that, at its mere sound, the phantoms of those haunted late years began to take flight.
