Quotes by Dame Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Sitwell

British poet

Lived from: 1887 - 1964

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 7 september 1887 Died: 9 december 1964

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  • Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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  • 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.
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  • I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.
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  • I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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  • 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.
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  • My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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  • 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.
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  • The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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  • The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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  • Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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Questions and Answers

What are the most famous quotes from Dame Edith Sitwell?

The two most famous quotes from Dame Edith Sitwell are:

  • "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."

When did Dame Edith Sitwell live?

Dame Edith Sitwell was born in 1887 and died in the year 1964.