My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

- Edith Sitwell

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

- Edith Sitwell

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

- Edith Sitwell

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

- Edith Sitwell

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

- Edith Sitwell

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

- Edith Sitwell

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

- Edith Sitwell

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

- Edith Sitwell

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