Osbert Lancaster

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Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.
- Osbert Lancaster
Collection: Luck
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Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.
- Osbert Lancaster
Collection: Frozen
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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.
- Osbert Lancaster
Collection: Blessing
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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.
- Osbert Lancaster
Collection: Congratulations
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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.
- Osbert Lancaster
Collection: Home