Quote

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.

Edith Sitwell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
Biographer
Essayist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
Miss Edith
Attention
Mouse
Incarnation
Attract
Mice
Previous
Dress
Dresses
Trouble

More quotes by Edith Sitwell

Image
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
Edith Sitwell
Image
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
Image
All great art contains an element of the irrational.
Edith Sitwell
Image
What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
Edith Sitwell
Image
Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.
Edith Sitwell
Image
The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
Edith Sitwell
Image
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell
Image
I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
Edith Sitwell
Image
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Edith Sitwell
Image
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
Edith Sitwell
Image
The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of a moment of their other lives - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
Edith Sitwell
Image
The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And no more love Gone is the heart of Man.
Edith Sitwell
Image
My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.
Edith Sitwell
Image
By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.
Edith Sitwell
Image
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.
Edith Sitwell
Image
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
Edith Sitwell
Image
It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
Edith Sitwell
Image
I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
Edith Sitwell
Image
The last faint spark In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark, The wounds of the baited bear,-- The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat On his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.
Edith Sitwell
Image
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell