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> [ My education \[takes place\] during the holidays from Eton. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/my-education-takes-place-during-the-holidays-from-eton/)

[Osbert Sitwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osbert-sitwell/)

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## More by Osbert Sitwell

> [Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/hell-has-a-climate-but-no-situation-it-lies-in-the-spirit-and-not-in/)

[Osbert Sitwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osbert-sitwell/)

> [It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/it-is-fatal-to-be-appreciated-in-one-s-own-time/)

[Osbert Sitwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osbert-sitwell/)

> [Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/poetry-is-like-fish-if-it-s-fresh-it-s-good-if-it-s-stale-it-s-bad/)

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> [The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/the-rich-man-s-banquet-which-was-to-last-for-a-decade-had-now-begun/)

[Osbert Sitwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osbert-sitwell/)

> [How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/how-simple-minded-of-the-germans-to-imagine-that-we-british-could-be/)

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> [We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/we-attended-stables-as-we-attended-church-in-our-best-clothes-thereby/)

[Osbert Sitwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osbert-sitwell/)

> [ My education \[takes place\] during the holidays from Eton. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/my-education-takes-place-during-the-holidays-from-eton/)

[Osbert Sitwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osbert-sitwell/)

> [Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/heroic-figures-are-now-obsolete-so-demigod-and-devil-find-retreatin/)

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> [A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/a-golf-course-outside-a-big-town-serves-an-excellent-purpose-in-that/)

[Osbert Sitwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osbert-sitwell/)

> [The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/the-terrible-newly-imported-american-doctrine-that-everyone-ought-to/)

[Osbert Sitwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osbert-sitwell/)

> [Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/everywhere-men-have-unlocked-the-prisoners-within-and-from-under-the/)

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> [For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/for-poetry-is-the-wisdom-of-the-blood-that-scarlet-tree-within-which/)

[Osbert Sitwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osbert-sitwell/)

> [ For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything \[on Jesus\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/for-forty-days-he-went-out-into-the-desert-and-never-shot-anything-on/)

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> [In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/in-reality-killing-time-is-only-the-name-for-another-of-the/)

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> [The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osbert-sitwell/the-only-difference-between-an-artist-and-a-lunatic-is-perhaps-that/)

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