# Quote — Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

> '...I wonder if you remember the story mummy read us the evening Sebastian first got drunk - I mean the bad evening. "Father Brown" said something like "I caught him" (the thief) "with an unseen hook and and invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread."'

- Author: [Evelyn Waugh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh.md)
- Book: [Brideshead Revisited](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/brideshead-revisited.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/brideshead-revisited/i-wonder-if-you

## More from this book

> She seemed to say "Look at me. I have done my share. I am beautiful. It is something quite out of the ordinary, this beauty of mine. I am made for delight. But what do I get out of it? Where is my reward?"That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, this magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/brideshead-revisited/she-seemed-to-say.md)

> My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/brideshead-revisited/my-theme-is-memory.md)

> The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are

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