28 ordspråk av Dame Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell föddes den September 7th 1887 och dog den 9 December 1964 - brother of Sir Osbert Sitwell.
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 A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. |
| 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. |
| Good taste is the worst vice ever invented |
| 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. |
| I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. |
| 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 goldfish. |
| I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the highest flights of art |
| I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. |
| I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. |
| I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...but I am too busy thinking about myself. |
| 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 I hope to become worthy. |
| I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. |
| I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. |
| 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 think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink. |
| It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees |
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