Goes on Quotes by Ethel Smyth

if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

— Ethel Smyth

No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to…

— Ethel Smyth

If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by…

— Ethel Smyth

The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an…

— Ethel Smyth

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even…

— Ethel Smyth

If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less, he soon…

— Ethel Smyth

I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare…

— Ethel Smyth

I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one…

— Ethel Smyth

I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.

— Ethel Smyth

night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For…

— Ethel Smyth

no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.

— Ethel Smyth

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

— Ethel Smyth