Edith Sitwell Quotes

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Edith Sitwell

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Social
  • Court
  • Supreme Court

• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Best
  • Blonde
  • Common Sense

• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Long
  • Society

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Happy
  • Like
  • Film

• Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Imagination
  • Matter

• I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Part
  • Turn

• There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Night
  • Sports

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Fall

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• I'm not really a food connoisseur.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Food
  • Really
  • Connoisseur

• I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

  

  Karl von Frisch
  • School
  • Medicine
  • Grammar

• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Care
  • Achievement
  • Act

• We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • School
  • Kids
  • Age

• Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • Up
  • Worry
  • Driving

• But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Moments
  • Curious
  • Elegance

• An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• What would that be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Goddess