Quotes by Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell

… all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

Endure

Skins

Ugliness

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

History

Mills

Sawdust

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

Reading

Sarcastic

Writing

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

Great Poet

Heart

Poetry

But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran Carrying the world’s weight of the world’s filth And the filth in the heart of Man– Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat than that of the Sun.

Evil

Heart

Men

By ‘happiness’ I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.

Happiness

Mean

Would Be

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

Believe

Men

Pride

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.

Baby

Hot

Water

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.

Eels

People

Women

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

Modesty

Thinking

Time

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Age

Art

Artist

Attention

Baby

Beautiful

Believe

Book

Cat

Children

Dames

Dark

Different

Discipline

Dream

Dresses

Dying

Eels

Endure

Evil

Fall

Fashion

Feelings

Fire

Firsts

Funny

Garden

Giving

Glucose

Good Health

Government

Great Poet

Greed

Happiness

Heart

Heaven

Hints

History

Home

Hot

Kings

Kitchen

Knows

Law

Light

Lonely

Looks

Loss

Lying

Mad

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Quotes by Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell

… all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

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

But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran Carrying the world’s weight of the world’s filth And the filth in the heart of Man– Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat than that of the Sun.

By ‘happiness’ I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

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.

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.

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

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