We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.
I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser. - Osbert Sitwell
I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
- Osbert Sitwell
For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus] - Osbert Sitwell
For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]
The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest. - 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.
It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time. - Osbert Sitwell
It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.
We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses. - Osbert Sitwell
For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower. - Osbert Sitwell
For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.
Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space. - Osbert Sitwell
Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.
The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsess… - Osbert Sitwell
The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsess…
How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the Ge… - Osbert Sitwell
How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the Ge…
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