"Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and……" — Osbert Sitwell
"Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out."
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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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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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Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
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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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More Apes Quotes
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one of 234 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,…
— Diane Ackerman
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The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
— Honore de Balzac
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Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female…
— Brandon Boyd
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like…
— William Shakespeare
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish…
— Carl Linnaeus
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I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being…
— Jared Diamond
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