Edith Sitwell Quotes

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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