Brideshead Revisited (TV Mini Series)

A Twitch Upon the Thread (1981)

Phoebe Nicholls: Cordelia Flyte

Quotes 

• Cordelia Flyte : Tell me, Charles. When you first met me last night, did you think "Poor Cordelia. Such an engaging child, grown into a plain and pious spinster, full of good works"? Did you think "thwarted"?

  Charles Ryder : [chuckles]  Yes, I did. But now I'm not so sure.

  Cordelia Flyte : It's funny, you know. That's exactly the word I thought for you and Julia when I saw you up in the nursery with Nanny - "thwarted passion", I thought.

• [Cordelia has been telling Charles that she has recently met Sebastian living a dissolute and drunken life in a Tunisian monastery after his lover has killed himself] 

  Charles Ryder : It's not what one would have foretold. I suppose he doesn't suffer.

  Cordelia Flyte : Oh, yes, I think he does. One has no idea what the suffering may be - to be as maimed as he is. No dignity, no power of will. No-one is truly holy without suffering.