"We attended stables, as we attended church, in……" — Osbert Sitwell
"We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses."
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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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Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
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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 Attended Quotes
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Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
— Saul Bellow
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Frankly, I'm not sure how far I would get if I attended public school today. It's not just that public…
— Eli Broad
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
— Winston Churchill
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I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
— Woody Allen
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When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.
— Diablo Cody
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
— Thomas Paine
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
— Charles Darwin
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Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
— Jonathan Swift
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Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long…
— Samuel Adams
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During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull.…
— Charles Darwin
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you…
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