Edith Sitwell - People Quotes

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I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.

Edith Sitwell

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

Edith Sitwell

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us 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.

Edith Sitwell

People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

Edith Sitwell

There are people, also, who cannot believe that beauty and gaiety are a part of goodness.
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

Edith Sitwell

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.

Edith Sitwell