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
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
More quotations tagged with “humility”
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.