How am I supposed to take the Christian themes seriously when this supposedly Christian family uses wealth, power, and deceit to help a guilty criminal evade proper punishment?
~ Brideshead Revisited, Part III: “The Bleak Light of Day”
What kind of upper-class twit can’t clean up vomit on his own, and would rather let it stink up his room all night just so the servant can clean it up the next day?
~ Brideshead Revisited, Part I: “Et in Arcadia Ego”