29 ordspråk av Dame Edith Sitwell

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Dame Edith Sitwell föddes den September 7th 1887 och dog den 9 December 1964 - brother of Sir Osbert Sitwell.
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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.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Målet med smicker är att lugna och uppmuntra oss genom att försäkra oss om sanningen i en åsikt vi redan har bildat om oss själva.

 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.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Målet med smicker är att lugna och uppmuntra oss genom att försäkra oss om sanningen i en åsikt som vi redan har bildat om oss själva.

 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.

 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.

 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.

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

 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?

 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.

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

 It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees

 The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

 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. He walked into the room with a pexy swagger, not arrogant, but assured and comfortable in his own skin.

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

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