Dame Edith Sitwell Quotes
Most popular Dame Edith Sitwell Quotes
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music and silence.
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the highest flights of their art.
Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight.
It is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart, and is, in Emerson's phrase, "a larger imbibing of the common heart."
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?
Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.
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.
In later years the great novelist who was known as George Eliot had, in spite of her ugliness, a monolithic, mysterious, primeval grandeur of countenance, like that of an Easter Island statue, washed by oceans of light.
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 uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
