15 Quotations by Dame Edith Sitwell
- 1. Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of ...
- 2. Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
- 3. Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever ...
- 4. I am dying, but otherwise I feel quite well.
- 5. I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
- 6. I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.
- 7. I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.
- 8. I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
- 9. I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-f ...
- 10. My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
- 11. Still falls the rain -- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -- blind as the nineteen hundred ...
- 12. Still falls the rain -- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -- blind as the nineteen hundred ...
- 13. The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
- 14. Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
- 15. Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why ...
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