Edith Sitwell Quotes
"I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself."
- Edith Sitwell
(Related: Time, Modesty, Thinking)
"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
(Related: Attention, Dress, Mouse, Trouble, Want, Will)
"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
- Edith Sitwell
(Related: Truth, Public, Will)
"The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten."
- Edith Sitwell
(Related: Life, Men)
"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
(Related: Truth, Flattery, Opinion)
"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
(Related: Blind, Loss, Man, Rain, World)
"Poetry is the deification of reality."
- Edith Sitwell
(Related: Poetry, Reality)
"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
(Related: Discipline, Hope, Church, Authority, Fire, Unworthy, Want)
"I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent."
- Edith Sitwell
(Related: Government, Tax)
"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."
- Edith Sitwell
(Related: Stupidity)
"I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art."
- Edith Sitwell
(Related: Art)
"I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish."
- Edith Sitwell
"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
(Related: Baby, Water)
"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."
- Edith Sitwell
(Related: Taste, Vice)
"A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits."
- Edith Sitwell
(Related: People, Now, Reading, Writing)