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
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. – Edith Sitwell
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. – Edith Sitwell
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. – Edith Sitwell
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. – Edith Sitwell
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty… but I am too busy thinking about myself. – Edith Sitwell
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. – Edith Sitwell
