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
I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser. — 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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