Dame Edith Sitwell quotes

" I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. " # Patience # Stupidity # Doctors

" My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. " # Music # Books - Reading # Silence

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

" Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. " # Taste

" I am not an eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. " # Quotations # Eccentricity # Policy

" I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. " # Profits # Policy # Death and Dying

" I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. " # Taxes and Taxation # Government # Cinema

" I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. " # Bores and Boredom # Happiness # Arts and Artists

" Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. " # Vulgarity # Love # Ancestry

" I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. " # Progress # Fear # Love