"Beware the Anglo-Catholics. They're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." — Cousin Jasper - Evelyn Waugh

"...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.

My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under his chair.