Osbert Sitwell quotes

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

Educ[ated]: during the holidays from Eton.

Osbert Sitwell

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

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

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood, That scarlet tree within, which has the power To make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

Osbert Sitwell

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

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 German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!

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 obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

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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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They loved him, I think, because, with all his merits, he showed them to be rich: looking at his portraits, they understood at last how rich they really were.

Osbert Sitwell

The British bourgeoisie
Is not born
And does not die,
But, if it is ill,
It has a frightened look in its eyes. (Osbert Sitwell)

Osbert Sitwell

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Occupation: British Writer
Born: December 6, 1892
Died: May 4, 1969
Quotes count: 11
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