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Edith Sitwell Quotes
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
Patience
,
Stupidity
,
Proud
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell
Time
,
Busy
,
Thinking
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
Edith Sitwell
Pool
,
Unpopular
,
Electric
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Edith Sitwell
Good
,
Worst
,
Taste
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
Music
,
Silence
,
Personal
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
Truth
,
Long
,
Public
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Edith Sitwell
Art
,
Greatest
,
Unhappy
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
Rain
,
Black
,
Dark
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
Attention
,
Trouble
,
Dress
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Edith Sitwell
Great
,
Writing
,
Reading
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
Since
,
Water
,
Baby
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
Hope
,
Fire
,
Become
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell
Government
,
Wish
,
Put
Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell
Poetry
,
Reality
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
Truth
,
Opinion
,
Ourselves
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell
Life
,
Men
,
Forgotten
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Biography
Nationality:
British
Type:
Poet
Born:
September 7
, 1887
Died:
December 9
, 1964
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