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


Dame Edith Sitwell

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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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DAME EDITH SITWELL Good taste is the worst vice ever invented
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DAME EDITH SITWELL Poetry is the deification of reality.
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DAME EDITH SITWELL The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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DAME EDITH SITWELL I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
DAME EDITH SITWELL I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the highest flights of art
DAME EDITH SITWELL I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
DAME EDITH SITWELL I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
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A.J. CHILSON The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much...
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JOYCE CARY Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
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JEFFREY FRY Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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KEKE PALMER I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
LOUIS MACNEICE I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.
OSCAR WILDE No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. ...
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RICKY SCHRODER Where you are with what you have, what you can do.
DHARM BABU I'm a different person who's not my father or my mother. I want to be treated differently fr...
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EDITH HEAD Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, beca...
EDITH HEAD You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
EDITH HEAD What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of chan...
EDITH HEAD The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a...
EDITH HAMILTON A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ...
EDITH HAMILTON The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
EDITH EVANS A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down he...
EDITH EVANS I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
EDITH EVANS I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You ...
EDITH EVANS I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
EDITH CAVELL There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and belo...
EDITH WHARTON Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
EDITH SUMMERSKILL I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the ame...
EDITH WHARTON Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
EDITH WHARTON Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the cho...
EDITH WHARTON The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
EDITH WHARTON The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to...
EDITH WHARTON