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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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Osbert Sitwell
Source : Poems about People (1958) "Milordo Inglese"
#Time Quotes
#Reality Quotes
#Names Quotes
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“Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.”
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Osbert Sitwell
Source : Osbert Sitwell (1977). “The Cruel Month”, Olympic Marketing Corp
#Blood Quotes
#Tree Quotes
#Scarlet Quotes
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“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 obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.”
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Osbert Sitwell
#Beautiful Quotes
#Artist Quotes
#Differences Quotes
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“It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.”
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Osbert Sitwell
#Appreciated Quotes
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“The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.”
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Osbert Sitwell
Source : Osbert Sitwell (1977). “Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography”
#Work Quotes
#Doctrine Quotes
#Terrible Quotes
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“My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.”
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Osbert Sitwell
#Holiday Quotes
#Eton Quotes
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“Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries.”
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Osbert Sitwell
Source : Osbert Sitwell (1931). “The collected satires and poems of Osbert Sitwell”
#Children Quotes
#Flower Quotes
#Twilight Quotes
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“For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]”
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Osbert Sitwell
#Jesus Quotes
#Desert Quotes
#Shots Quotes
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“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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Osbert Sitwell
Source : Osbert Sitwell (1977). “Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography”
#Horse Quotes
#Clothes Quotes
#Doubt Quotes
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“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.”
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Osbert Sitwell
#Flower Quotes
#Blood Quotes
#Tree Quotes
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“Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.”
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Osbert Sitwell
Source : Osbert Sitwell (1946). “The scarlet tree: being the second volume of Left hand, right hand! An autobiography”, London, Macmillan & co. ltd.
#Lying Quotes
#Space Quotes
#Climate Quotes
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“The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.”
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Osbert Sitwell
Source : Osbert Sitwell (1977). “Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography”
#Artist Quotes
#World Quotes
#May Quotes
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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 to the greediest.”
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Osbert Sitwell
Source : Osbert Sitwell (1977). “Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography”
#Men Quotes
#Lasts Quotes
#Rich Quotes
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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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Osbert Sitwell
Source : Osbert Sitwell (1977). “The Cruel Month”, Olympic Marketing Corp
#Men Quotes
#Skins Quotes
#Apes Quotes
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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! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!”
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Osbert Sitwell
Source : "Tribune", Quoted by George Orwell, December 31, 1943.
#Simple Quotes
#Bombs Quotes
#Done Quotes
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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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Osbert Sitwell
#Men Quotes
#Rich Quotes
#Said Quotes
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“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.”
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Osbert Sitwell
#Golf Quotes
#Purpose Quotes
#Towns Quotes
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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 it on the cat.”
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Osbert Sitwell
#Cat Quotes
#Poetry Quotes
#Trying Quotes
