Osbert Sitwell Quotes

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

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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