Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.

When we think of cruelty we must try to remember the stupidity the envy the frustration from which it has arisen.

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 home.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

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.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

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.

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.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

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.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

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 home.

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.