Osbert Lancaster quotes

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

Source : Osbert Lancaster (1963). “All done from memory”, John Murray

#Congratulations Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Matter Quotes

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

Source : Osbert Lancaster (1958). “Here, of All Places”

#Blessing Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

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

Source : Osbert Lancaster (1963). “All done from memory”, John Murray

#Luck Quotes #Four Quotes #Inbreeding Quotes

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

Source : Osbert Lancaster (1975). “A cartoon history of architecture”, Harvard Common Pr

#Home Quotes #Numbers Quotes #People Quotes

“Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.”
-- Osbert Lancaster

Source : Osbert Lancaster (1975). “A cartoon history of architecture”, Harvard Common Pr

#Frozen Quotes #May Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.”

“Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.”

“There is no doubt that the reason for my awful oversight was over-confidence that sapped my sense of danger. So that is where to look for the cause of bad blunders - in the exulting feeling of self-congratulation.”

“The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.”

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.7, Courier Corporation

“I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.”

“Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.”

“There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.141, Da Capo Press