Quotes by Edith Sitwell

"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
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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and...