I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. Edith Sitwell
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. Edith Sitwell
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 one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. Edith Sitwell
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. Edith Sitwell
It is a part of the poet’s work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees. 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
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation…they do not want to attract attention. Edith Sitwell