Edith Sitwell

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

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

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

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

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

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

- Edith Sitwell