Eccentricity is not, as some would 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.
タグ: philosophy, emotion, criticism

"Edith Sitwell"の他の名言

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
タグ: reading, better, people, great
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
タグ: i-wish, wish, government, funny
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.
タグ: black, world, man, rain
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
タグ: want, attention, will, dress
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
タグ: discipline, i-am, fire, hope
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