Shirley Bassey Quotes: top 28 famous quotes about Shirley Bassey

Shirley Bassey Quotes & Sayings

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Hee is not free that drawes his chaine. — George Herbert

How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears! — Shirley Bassey

You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose. — Toni Morrison

Diamonds never leave you ... men do! — Shirley Bassey

You don't get older, you get better. — Shirley Bassey

I'm a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same. — Shirley Bassey

When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up. — Shirley Bassey

I'm always being asked if I watch 'The X Factor,' and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift. — Shirley Bassey

I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit. — Shirley Bassey

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating. — Shirley Bassey

I'd like to run away
From you,
But if you didn't come
And find me ...
I would die. — Shirley Bassey

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked. — Jane Horrocks

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft. — Vidal Sassoon

You want success, and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention. — Shirley Bassey

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. — Shirley Bassey

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business. — Shirley Bassey

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough. — Shirley Bassey

In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches. — Shirley Bassey

I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva. — Shirley Bassey

Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing. — Eloisa James

I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey. — Karine Vanasse

I'm not getting old. I'm getting better. — Shirley Bassey

I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all. — Peter Scott

In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam. — Ezra Koenig

I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage. — Shirley Bassey

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Life is a gift, which too many of us forget to cherish. — Elijah Conners

Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom. — Ella Fitzgerald