Character Quotes

Question 1

Wandering Jew. He was indeed a nomad of no nationality. Criss-cross about the world he travelled with them…

Answer 1

Anthony Blanche

Question 2

He was cruel, too, in the wanton, insect-maiming manner of the very young, and fearless like a little boy

Answer 2

Anthony Blanche

Question 3

Anthony Blanche had not changed from when I last saw him; not, indeed, from when I first saw him.

Answer 3

Anthony Blanche

Question 4

The name is Mulcaster,’ said Mulcaster. ‘Viscount Mulcaster.

Answer 4

Boy Muscaster

Question 5

“There’s Brideshead who’s something archaic… as though an Aztec sculptor had attempted a portrait of Sebastian; he’s a learned bigot, a ceremonious barbarian

Answer 5

Brideshead

Question 6

Callously wicked, wantonly cruel

Answer 6

Charles

Question 7

I was not her man

Answer 7

Charles

Question 8

There was also a daughter now, she remarked

Answer 8

Charles

Question 9

“Her children, my art”

Answer 9

Charles and Celia

Question 10

And Julia… A face of flawless Florentine quattrocento beauty… she’s as smart as — well, as smart as Stefanie. So gay, so correct, so unaffected. I wonder if she’s incestuous.

Answer 10

Julia

Question 11

Thin in those days, flat-chested, leggy

Answer 11

Julia

Question 12

The diamonds flashed in her hair and on her fingers, but her hands were nervously rolling little balls of crumb, and her starry head drooped in despair.

Answer 12

Julia

Question 13

I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all

Answer 13

Julia

Question 14

The place belongs to Lady Julia Flyte, as she calls herself now. She was married to Mottram, the Minister of-whatever-it-is.

Answer 14

Julia

Question 15

His mother is very ill, I said. I have come to tell him. ‘She rich?’ ‘Yes.’

Answer 15

Kurt

Question 16

Lady Marchmain… a voice as quiet as a prayer, and as powerful.

Answer 16

Lady Marchmain

Question 17

Poor mummy. She really was a femme fatale

Answer 17

Lady Marchmain

Question 18

And Lord. Marchmain, a magnifico, a voluptuary, Byronic, bored, infectiously slothful.

Answer 18

Lord Marchmain

Question 19

Jolly near a hundred thousand in London. I don’t know what they owe elsewhere. That’s quite a packet

Answer 19

Rex

Question 20

He had stepped straight from the underworld

Answer 20

Rex

Question 21

Rex hoped to have the whole of Julia’s dowry in his hands, to make it work for him.

Answer 21

Rex

Question 22

He doesn’t seem to have the least intellectual curiosity or natural piety.

Answer 22

Rex

Question 23

You must treat him like an idiot child… he smiled openly and innocently at them all… What’s all the rumpus?

Answer 23

Rex

Question 24

…My country of Hawkins and Drake.

Answer 24

Rex’s colleagues

Question 25

I wonder which is the more horrible,’ I said, ‘Celia’s Art and Fashion or Rex’s Politics and Money.

Answer 25

Rex and Celia

Question 26

“Of course it’s a bluff Where’s their tungsten? Where’s their manganese?”

Answer 26

Rex’s colleagues

Question 27

‘The women are barren.’ ‘The men are impotent.’ … ‘Now they’ve got consumption.’ ‘Now they’ve got syphilis.’

Answer 27

Rex’s colleagues

Question 28

Rex’s public life was approaching a climacteric.

Answer 28

Rex

Question 29

Narcissus, with one pustule.

Answer 29

Sebastian

Question 30

‘Poor simple monk,’ I thought, ‘poor booby.’ God forgive me!

Answer 30

Sebastian

Question 31

It’s when one gets to the parents that a bottomless pit opens.

Answer 31

Lord and Lady Marchmain