About Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to...
More quotations from Edith Sitwell
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
More quotations tagged with “taxes”
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.