"The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last……" — Osbert Sitwell
"The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest."
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Osbert Sitwell
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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 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 Banquet Quotes
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one of 82 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
— Aristotle
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
— Aesop
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We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of…
— Deepak Chopra
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At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep…
— A. Philip Randolph
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
— Quintilian
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The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain…
— Unknown Author
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The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home,…
— Michael Jackson
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At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three…
— Therese of Lisieux
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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point…
— Pope Francis
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On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."
— Yogi Berra
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