Edith Sitwell Quotes

Edith Sitwell Quotes

Edith Sitwell Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Edith Sitwell:

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

"I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish."

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

"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."

"I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance."

"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 u"

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

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

"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."

"My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life."

"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to "

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