“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the
touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time
for home.”
―
Edith Sitwell
“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 catfish.”
―
Edith Sitwell
“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
―
Edith Sitwell
“In private life she was not in the least what her calumniators
would have wished her to be. She was very quiet, had a great natural
dignity, and was extremely intelligent. She was also exceedingly
sensitive.”
―
Edith Sitwell
“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.”
―
Edith Sitwell
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