Osbert Sitwell Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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