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 of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves! — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space. — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
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. — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest. — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
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… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses. — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
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… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something. — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out. — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
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. — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
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