Dame Edith Sitwell Quotes
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?
I am dying, but otherwise I feel quite well.
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
A lady asked me why, on most occasions, I wore black. "Are you in mourning?" "Yes." "For whom are you in mourning?" "For the world."
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.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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: it is the time for