Quotes by Sitwell, Dame Edith

"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on eccentricity
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"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."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on men   

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

Sitwell, Dame Edith on modesty   

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

Sitwell, Dame Edith on patience   

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

Sitwell, Dame Edith on poetry and poets   

"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."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on rain
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"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on silence
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"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on taste   

"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."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on trials   

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

Sitwell, Dame Edith on vulgarity