Edith Sitwell Quotes

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

Edith Sitwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 7, 1887 - December 9, 1964

Topics

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The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

Jim Hightower

GovernmentAnymoreCorporationsLobby

For someone like me who, as a kid, walked to school muttering little political speeches to myself, it was irresistible to finally get a chance at political life for real. When the people of Etobicoke-Lakeshore elected me their MP, it changed me forever.

Michael Ignatieff

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Leacock

LifeDayLearnEvery DayLateHour

It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money.

Simon Le Bon

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I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that.

Miranda Lambert

PeopleWantSideDifferentHear

I was a very confident child. I knew I wanted to be an actress from the age of 5.

Claire Danes

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In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Clare Boothe Luce

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I am terrified of submarines.

Autumn Reeser

I AmTerrifiedAm

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

Shelley Winters

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We may be living in a world of disposable electronics, but working people are not disposable commodities.

Sharan Burrow

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Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

Rene Descartes

TalkingAlmostLikeThoseTravelling

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

Mustard

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