Quote #36

I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?

More from Edith Sitwell

  1. People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.
  2. 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.
  3. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
  4. I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying t…
  5. There are people, also, who cannot believe that beauty and gaiety are a part of goodness. When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember…
  6. Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
  7. I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell, I'm not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds li…
  8. I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

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