Mrs. Patrick Campbell Quotes

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

If you can read this you can read me.

You can do anything in London, as long as you don't do it on the street.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool ...

Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.