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Osbert Sitwell
13 quotes
“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 (1892–1969) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the House of Mrs. Kinfoot", line 49 (1919).
“The Daily Herald is unkind. It has been horrid About my nice new war. I shall burn the Daily Herald.”
Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Certain Statesman", The Daily Herald, July 22, 1919. Written in response to British officials banning British soldiers from reading The Daily Herald newspaper. Quoted in Blythe, Ronald, The Age of Illusion: England in…
“Our General Had to restore "Law-and-Order" At Amritsar; For he knew That if he failed To shoot Two thousand natives They would have laughed at him. To laugh at a General, Is, of course, very rude.”
Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shaking Hands With Murder", in Douglas, Noel, (ed.) Poems of Revolt: A Twentieth Century Anthology (1924).
“Heroic figures are now obsolete, So Demigod and Devil find retreat In minds of children — as rare beasts and men, Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fen From man protected — where each form assumes Gigantic stature and intention, looms From wind-moved, twilight-woven histories: For them each flower teems with mysteries.”
Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When First the Poets Sung", line 34 (1927).
“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 (1892–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Educ[ated]: during the holidays from Eton.”
Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Entry in Who's Who (1929).
“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 (1892–1969) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by George Orwell in Tribune, December 31, 1943.
“Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.”
Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Left Hand, Right Hand!, Introduction (1945).
“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 (1892–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1892–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.”
Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Scarlet Tree, Bk. IV, ch. 1 (1946).
“The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.”
Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Osbert Sitwell (1892–1969) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Noble Essences, Bk. IX, ch. 7 (1950).