"Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry…" — Osbert Sitwell
"Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us."
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13 Quotes by Osbert Sitwell
Osbert Sitwell has 13 quotes on this site.
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A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp,…
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The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to…
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In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
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I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
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How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments!…
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Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
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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…
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The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him…
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Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.
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We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due…
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For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]
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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…
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
— Saint Augustine
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's…
— Richard Bach
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in…
— Honore de Balzac
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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
— Clara Barton
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The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and…
— Annie Besant
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron…
— Otto von Bismarck
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
— Joe Biden
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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
— Buffalo Bill
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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
— Bjork
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Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a…
— Lewis Black
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