Osbert Lancaster Quotes

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The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

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Mr Landseer whose only merit as a painter was the tireless accuracy with which he recorded the more revoltingly sentimental aspects of the woollier mammals.

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Not to be English was for my family so terrible a handicap as almost to place the sufferer in the permanent invalid class.

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All over the country the latest and most scientific methods of mass-production are being utilized to turn out a stream of old oak beams, leaded window-panes and small discs of bottle-glass, all structural devices which our ancestors lost no time in abandoning as soon as an increase in wealth and knowledge enabled them to do so.

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The old English belief that if a thing is unpleasant it is automatically good for you.

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I remain of the opinion that there is no game from bridge to cricket that is not improved by a little light conversation; a view which…is shared only by a small and unjustly despised minority.

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Mr Ruskin, whose distinction it was to express in prose of incomparable grandeur thought of an unparalleled confusion.

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Fan-vaulting…from an aesthetic standpoint frequently belongs to the 'Last-supper-carved-on-a-peach-stone' class of masterpiece.

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A taste for the grandiose, like a taste for morphia, is, once it has been fully acquired, difficult to keep within limits.

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For self-revelation, whether it be a Tudor villa on the by-pass or a bomb-proof chalet at Berchtesgaden, there's no place like home.

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Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

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His appearance with his large features and rich mane of hair suggested the attempt of some archaic sculptor only acquainted with sheep to achieve a lion by hearsay.

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Although very few people are actually called upon to live in palaces a very large number are unwilling to admit the fact.

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A household where a total unawareness of the world of ideas not only existed but was regarded as a matter for congratulation.

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