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

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

[President Bush should] quit hiding behind the Secret Service, come out and face the nation and explain his failure to protect the country. — Peter Jennings

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

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

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

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

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

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

Osbert Mulliner was simply unequal to the task of tackling cavemen. — P.G. Wodehouse

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. — Osbert Sitwell

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

Some mothers soften their sons, but Osbert was motherless and I had raised him hard because a man must be hard. The world is filled with enemies. — Bernard Cornwell

Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts. — Osbert Lancaster

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

All these places I want to go don't exist without you. All my goals come from one place. You. You are my biggest goal. That's not wrong, is it? — Jus Accardo

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

My soul, do not seek eternal life, but exhaust the realm of the possible. — Pindar

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

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

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

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

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. — Osbert Sitwell

There is no difference 'twixt you and 'twixt me, save that one stands and one sits when we pee. — Trisha Telep

We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands. — Edith Hamilton

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