Top 38 Osbert Quotes
#1. Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat.
Trent Jamieson
#3. Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.
Osbert Lancaster
#4. Everything balled up into one: Beat Mexico and qualify. There's no better scenario.
Landon Donovan
#5. 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.
Osbert Sitwell
#6. Some mothers soften their sons, but Osbert was motherless and I had raised him hard because a man must be hard. The world is filled with enemies.
Bernard Cornwell
#7. 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
#8. It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
William Penn
#9. Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.
Osbert Sitwell
#10. Osbert Mulliner was simply unequal to the task of tackling cavemen.
P.G. Wodehouse
#11. You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.
Viggo Mortensen
#12. Dances are generally more fun to think about and get ready for than they actually are when you get there.
E. Lockhart
#13. If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.
Joe Perry
#14. Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.
Meg Rosoff
#15. In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul.
Danny Meyer
#16. Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.
Friedrich Schiller
#17. 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
#18. We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.
Osbert Sitwell
#19. I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
Osbert Sitwell
#20. The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
Osbert Sitwell
#21. In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
Osbert Sitwell
#22. Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.
Orrin Woodward
#23. The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.
Osbert Sitwell
#24. A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.
Osbert Lancaster
#25. My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.
Osbert Sitwell
#26. 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.
Osbert Sitwell
#27. The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
#28. Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.
Osbert Lancaster
#30. How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how have I misjudged the vectors?
Stephanie Vaughn
#31. Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
Osbert Sitwell
#32. IT companies in Bangalore are a reliable engine of development for India.
Angela Merkel
#33. For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]
Osbert Sitwell
#34. The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.
Osbert Lancaster
#35. 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
#36. Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
Osbert Sitwell
#38. 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.
Osbert Sitwell
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