Osbert Sitwell Quotes

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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 idiot…
• The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his…
• In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
• I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
• 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…
• Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
• The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.
• The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
• Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.
• Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
• We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.
• For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]
• 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.

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