Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit… - Osbert Sitwell

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

Osbert Sitwell

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Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, Bt. (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English poet, novelist, memoirist and controversialist on behalf of the arts. Osbert Sitwell, his brother Sacheverell and his sister Edith were among the most conspicuous figures in the British artistic world of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Birth Name: Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell

Native Name: Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet • Sir Osbert Sitwell, Bt

Alternative Names: Capt. Sir [Francis] Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell

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Our General
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"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.

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.

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!

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

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