Quotes of Dame Edith Sitwell

“ I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. ”

- Dame Edith Sitwell

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Inspire

“ I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. ”

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Administration

“ 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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Baby

“ The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ”

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Bard

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

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Black

“ I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. ”

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Bore

“ I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. ”

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Charge

“ I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. ”

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Command

“ 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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Cute

“ I am dying, but otherwise I feel quite well. ”

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Confident

“ 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. ”

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Cry

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

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Cross

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

- Dame Edith Sitwell

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Cultivate

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

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Descend

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

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Dismal

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

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Dark

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

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Dim

“ I am dying, but otherwise I feel quite well. ”

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Dying

“ 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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Element

“ 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. ”

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Emit

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

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Eighty

“ I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. ”

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Flight

“ Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? ”

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Flourishing

“ Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? ”

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Flourishing

“ Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? ”

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Fortunate

“ 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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Fish

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

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Forty

“ The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ”

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Forgotten

“ I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. ”

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Gloom

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Quotes of Dame Edith Sitwell - somelinesforyou

“ I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. ”

“ I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ”

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

“ I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. ”

“ I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. ”

“ I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. ”

“ 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 dying, but otherwise I feel quite well. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

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

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

“ I am dying, but otherwise I feel quite well. ”

“ 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'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. ”

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

“ I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. ”

“ Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? ”

“ Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? ”

“ Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? ”

“ 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. ”

“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”

“ The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ”

“ I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. ”

“ Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? ”