Quotes by : Edith Sitwell

Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone,And I, a dead King in my golden armour....

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hintsOf tentative and half-soiled tints

I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.

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

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a....

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

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....

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

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride,....