Durham WASP

“Let us say you are in Queer Street and leave it at that."

Sir John Gielgud and Jeremy Irons, Brideshead Revisited [1981]

"Ought we to be drunk every night?" Sebastian asked one morning.  "Yes, I think so."  "I think so too." 

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

"If every museum were emptied, if every famous building were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world."

Evelyn Waugh

Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews, Brideshead Revisited [1981]

"My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life—for we possess nothing certainly except the past—were always with me." 

Jeremy Irons, Brideshead Revisited based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh

“Of course those that have charm don't really need brains.” 

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

One Instinctively Knows When Something Is Right - Croft Original Sherry commercial. 

Jeeves and Wooster staring Jeremy Irons

"Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." 

Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews, Brideshead Revisited, based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh

"But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn't know existed." Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“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, Brideshead Revisited.

Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews in Brideshead Revisited [1981], an adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel [1945].