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There are 23 quotes for the author Edith Sitwell

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Subject: Truth

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Subject: Belief

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Subject: Silence

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Subject: Books

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

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.

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.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives"-a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...but I am too busy thinking about myself.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

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.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

Poetry is the deification of 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.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

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.

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