29 ordspråk av Dame Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell föddes den September 7th 1887 och dog den 9 December 1964 - brother of Sir Osbert Sitwell.
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 A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. |
| Good taste is the worst vice ever invented |
| 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 an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. |
| 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. |
| I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the highest flights of art |
| I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. |
| I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...but I am too busy thinking about myself. |
| 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. |
| I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. |
| I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink. |
| It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees |
| My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. |
| Poetry is the deification of reality. |
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Proverb (2099244 st) Search
Categories (3944 st) Search
Authors (201333 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10498 st)
Died (3319 st)
Dates (9520 st)
Countries (27242 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
Här har vi samlat ordstäv och talesätt i 35 år!
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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