All Edith Sitwell Quotes
- 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
- I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself. Busy
- The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. Belief
- I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. Catfish
- My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. Funny Music
- I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. Art
- 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. Baby
- Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon… Black
- Poetry is the deification of reality. Art
- Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and… Aristocrat
- I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of… Alive
- 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:… Beside
- Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a… Armour
- Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese? Appearance