Edith Sitwell

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”

“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 am quite well.”

“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?”

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

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

“Eccentricity is not, as some would 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 ge...”

“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 am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.”

“I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.”

“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.”

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

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