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Edith Sitwell Quotes
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
Im afraid Im being an awful nuisance. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
Poetry is the deification of reality. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. - Edith Sitwell Quotes
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