A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.

- Osbert Lancaster

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

- Osbert Lancaster

Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.

- Osbert Lancaster

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

- Osbert Lancaster

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.

- Osbert Lancaster