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Osbert Sitwell quotes: The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.

The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.

Osbert Sitwell quotes: We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.

We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.

Osbert Sitwell quotes: The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

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 quotes: The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

Osbert Sitwell quotes: My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.

My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.

Osbert Sitwell quotes: For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]

For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]

Osbert Sitwell quotes: I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.

I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.

Osbert Sitwell quotes: 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 it on the cat.

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 it on the cat.

Osbert Sitwell quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

Osbert Sitwell quotes: In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.

Osbert Sitwell quotes: It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.

It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.

Osbert Sitwell quotes: Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.

Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.

Osbert Sitwell quotes: Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

Osbert Sitwell quotes: A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.

A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.