Thursday quotes - a few of my favourites

"Your English style will no doubt put all the gentlemen to bed.I speak figuratively of course"
John Gielgud(1904-2000)


Photography by Cecil Beaton
"The trouble with most English women is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation and do not want to attract attention"
Edith Sitwell(1887-1964)



"One day I was walking down Bond Street thinking how impeccably

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty three

Portrait of Edith Sitwell by Roger Fry, 1915
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence"
Edith Sitwell(1887-1964)



"Music is the mediator between the spiritual life and the sensual life"
Ludwig van Beethoven(1770-1827)



"Where words fail, music speaks"
Hans Christian Andersen(1805-1875)



"One good thing about music,when it hits you, you feel no pain"
Bob Marley(1945

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part thirty seven

"Truth is like the sun.  You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away"
Elvis Presley(1935-1977)









"The public will believe anything,so long as it is not founded on truth"
Edith Sitwell(1887-1964)




"You never find yourself, until you face the truth"
Pearl Bailey(1918-1990)



"Let a man get up and say 'Behold, this is the truth,'instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a