Edith Sitwell Famous Quotes
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Why not be oneself That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese
"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
"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."
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Edith Sitwell Quotations
"The laws that Charondas gave to Catana,... A man might divorce his wife, or a wife her husband, said Charondas, but then he or she must not marry anyone younger than the divorced mate."
Will Durant
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
Ellis Peters
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
Seneca
"Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun."
Ruth Westheimer
"King Jaffe Joffer So you see, my son, there is a very fine line between love and nausea."
Coming to America
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."
Anatole France
First Appeared in 1721
Proverb
"This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again."
Maitri Upanishads
"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. ... The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role."
William Torrey Harris
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another
Alan Stewart Paton