Edith Sitwell

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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 12 of 12 total 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. Edith SitwellGood taste is the worst vice ever invented. Edith SitwellI am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith SitwellMy personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. Edith Sitwell The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. Edith Sitwell My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. Edith Sitwell, "Some notes on my poetry" Collected Poems, 1957 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. Edith Sitwell, As quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. Edith Sitwell, As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950) I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. Edith Sitwell, Her last words, as quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967 I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. Edith Sitwell, Life magazine, 01-04-63Poetry is the deification of reality. Edith Sitwell, Life magazine, 01-04-63 Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. Edith Sitwell, Taken Care Of ,1965

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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 12 of 12 total 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. Edith SitwellGood taste is the worst vice ever invented. Edith SitwellI am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith SitwellMy personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. Edith Sitwell The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. Edith Sitwell My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. Edith Sitwell, "Some notes on my poetry" Collected Poems, 1957 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. Edith Sitwell, As quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. Edith Sitwell, As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950) I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. Edith Sitwell, Her last words, as quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967 I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. Edith Sitwell, Life magazine, 01-04-63Poetry is the deification of reality. Edith Sitwell, Life magazine, 01-04-63 Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. Edith Sitwell, Taken Care Of ,1965

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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 12 of 12 total 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. Edith SitwellGood taste is the worst vice ever invented. Edith SitwellI am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith SitwellMy personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. Edith Sitwell The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. Edith Sitwell My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. Edith Sitwell, "Some notes on my poetry" Collected Poems, 1957 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. Edith Sitwell, As quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. Edith Sitwell, As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950) I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. Edith Sitwell, Her last words, as quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967 I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. Edith Sitwell, Life magazine, 01-04-63Poetry is the deification of reality. Edith Sitwell, Life magazine, 01-04-63 Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. Edith Sitwell, Taken Care Of ,1965

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Edith Wharton

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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. Edith Wharton After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. Edith Wharton Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. Edith Wharton Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? Edith Wharton Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. Edith WhartonHow much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? Edith Wharton I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. Edith WhartonI wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie. Edith Wharton If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith WhartonIn spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. Edith Wharton Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. Edith WhartonOld age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. Edith Wharton The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. Edith Wharton True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. Edith WhartonThere are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time. Edith Wharton, The Last Asset, 1904There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante

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