Author: Edith Sitwell

Quotes

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

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

- Edith Sitwell

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

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

- Edith Sitwell

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.

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

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

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

- Edith Sitwell

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.

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

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

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

- Edith Sitwell

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

- Edith Sitwell

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

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

- Edith Sitwell

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

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

- Edith Sitwell

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