Edith Sitwell Quotes

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hintsOf tentative and half-soiled tints

Poetry is the deification of reality.

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 am dying but otherwise I am quite well.

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

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

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

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 catfish.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

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

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

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