Classic Quotes by Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) English writer
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
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I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
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I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.