The Catholic Book Club discussion

7. Share your favorite quotes from Brideshead with the group

"[I]t was a day of peculiar splendor, such as our climate affords once or twice a year, when leaf and flower and bird and sun-lit stone and shadow seem all to proclaim the glory of God. . . ."

"He leads a double life. At least I assume he does. He couldn't go on being Hardcastle, day and night, always, could he? Or he'd die of it. He says he knows my father, which is impossible."
"Why?"
"No one knows Papa. He's a social leper. Hadn't you heard?"

"These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime."

"He was a very holy old man and recognized it in others."
"Holiness?"
"Oh yes, Charles, that's what you've got to understand about Sebastian."