All Edith Sitwell Quotes
- Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. Ever Invented
- A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. Better
- It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. Ethics
- Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home. Comfort
- Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. Chic
- The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want… Attention
- There is no truth. Only points of view. Inspirational
- Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the… All
- Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to… Deprived
- My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. Glory
- 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. Aim
- Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next. Been
- "It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees." Art
- What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see. Art
- 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… Authority
- Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Dream
- 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:… Aimlessly
- [History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. History
- As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The… All
- If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? Conformity
- The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. All
- 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… Asphodel
- When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen. Arisen
- I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Favourite
- I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. Competence