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.
Dame Edith Sitwell
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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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.
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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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.
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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of a moment of their other lives-a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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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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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.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen
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