29 ordspråk av Dame Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Sitwell föddes den 7 september 1887 och dog den 9 december 1964 - brother of Sir Osbert Sitwell.
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It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees

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

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.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

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 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.

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

Målet med smicker är att lugna och uppmuntra oss genom att försäkra oss om sanningen i en åsikt som vi redan har bildat om oss själva.

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.

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.

It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

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

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.

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

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