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...
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
—Kate Jacobs in The Friday Night Knitting Club