Brideshead Revisited (TV Mini Series)

Sebastian Against the World (1981)

Simon Jones: Lord Brideshead 'Bridey'

Quotes 

• [after many earlier warnings, Sebastian has got drunk yet again and has just been expelled from Oxford. Charles and Bridie are packing up his belongings to send them home] 

  Lord Brideshead 'Bridey' : My mother believes Sebastian is a confirmed drunkard. Is he?

  Charles Ryder : He's in danger of becoming one.

  [Charles opens a drawer to find it full of whisky bottles. He shuts it quickly] 

  Lord Brideshead 'Bridey' : I believe God prefers drunkards to lot of repectable people.

  Charles Ryder : [exasperated]  For God's sake! Why do you have to bring God into everything?

  Lord Brideshead 'Bridey' : Oh I'm sorry, I forgot. But that's an extremely funny question.

  Charles Ryder : Is it?

  Lord Brideshead 'Bridey' : Oh, to me, not to you.

  Charles Ryder : No, not to me. It seems to me that without your religion, Sebastian might have had a chance to be a happy and a healthy man.

  Lord Brideshead 'Bridey' : [doubtfully]  It's arguable, I suppose.