My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell
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
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart. - Edith Sitwell
All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health. - Edith Sitwell
I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. - Edith Sitwell
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. - Edith Sitwell
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen. - Edith Sitwell
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. - Edith Sitwell
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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
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.
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