Evelyn Waugh Quote

'... But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable - like things in the school-room, so bad they were unpunishable, that only mummy could deal with - the bad thing I was on the point of doing, that I'm not quite bad enough to do; to set up a rival good to God's.'

Part 3, near end of chapter 5 - Brideshead Revisited (1945)