The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. -Edith Sitwell

 

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.


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This quote is just one of 11 total Edith Sitwell quotes in our collection. Edith Sitwell is known for saying 'The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.' as well as some of the following quotes.

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

Edith Sitwell

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.

Edith Sitwell

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

Edith Sitwell

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Edith Sitwell

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

Edith Sitwell