Quotes by Sitwell, Dame Edith

I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asp >>

Still falls the rain -- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -- >>

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. >>

Quotations about Eccentricity

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportiona >>

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an >>

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. >>

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.

Sitwell, Dame Edith