All Edith Sitwell Quotes
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
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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
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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
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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
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Edith Sitwell
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Edith Sitwell
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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
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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
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