I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

—Edith Sitwell

About Edith Sitwell

Portrait of 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...

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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.

—Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

—Edith Sitwell

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

—Edith Sitwell

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

—Edith Sitwell

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Poetry is the deification of reality.

—Edith Sitwell

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Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.

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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

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Getting a living under capitalism… is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.

—Eugene V. Debs

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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

—James Thurber

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