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Lily Langtry

  • “[When future King Edward VII said to her (his mistress), 'I've spent enough on you to buy a battleship:] And you've spent enough in me to float one.”

    • Lily Langtry,
    • in Irving Wallace et al., Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People ()

  • “Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.”

    • Lily Langtry

Lily Langtry, English actor

(1853 - 1929)

Born: Emilie Charlotte Le Breton.