Famous quotes containing the words dame edith sitwell, edith sitwell, dame edith, dame, edith and/or sitwell:
“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty.... But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (18871964)
“Still falls the Rain
Dark as the world of man, black as our loss
Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails
Upon the Cross.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (18871964)
“Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (18871964)
“Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.”
—Unknown. Tom o Bedlams Song (l. 1112)
“What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, thats what I want to give.”
—Dame Edith Evans (18881976)
“But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran
Carrying the worlds weight of the worlds filth
And the filth in the heart of Man
Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat
than that of the Sun.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (18871964)