Edith Sitwell

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.

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

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

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

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.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

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

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

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.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.