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. - Dame Sitwell Quotes
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. Dame Sitwell
 British Poet

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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. - Dame Sitwell Quotes

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.

Dame Sitwell

 
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. - Dame Sitwell Quotes

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

Dame Sitwell

 British Poet
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? - Dame Sitwell Quotes

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?

Dame Sitwell

 Appearance
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. - Dame Sitwell Quotes

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Dame Sitwell

 British Poet
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. - Dame Sitwell Quotes

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.

Dame Sitwell

 Believe Eccentricity
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Dame Sitwell Quotes

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

Dame Sitwell

 British Poet
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. - Dame Sitwell Quotes

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.

Dame Sitwell

 British Poet Dress
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen - Dame Sitwell Quotes

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen

Dame Sitwell

 
Poetry is the deification of reality. - Dame Sitwell Quotes

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Dame Sitwell

 British Poet
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. - Dame Sitwell Quotes

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Dame Sitwell

 Vulgarity
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