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Mrs. Patrick Campbell
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“[On vegetarian George Bernard Shaw:] If you give him meat no woman in London will be safe.”
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“I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy — for I am myself three-parts a fool ...”
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“People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part — a sort of drug — this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them ...”
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“Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.”
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“Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer.”
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“I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.”
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“[When asked why women had no sense of humor:] Do you know why God withheld the sense of humour from women? That we may love you, instead of laughing at you.”
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“[On George Bernard Shaw:] To be made to hold his tongue is the greatest insult you can offer him — though he might be ready with a poker to make you hold yours.”
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“The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.”
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“[To an elderly scientist who had bored her by talking interminably about the social organization of ants, which have 'their own police force and their own army':] No navy, I suppose.”
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“[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.”
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“... 'laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.'”
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“... when you were quite a little boy somebody ought to have said 'hush' just once!”
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“It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.”
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“Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.”
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“I once undertook on behalf of a friend to smuggle a small dog through the customs. I was of ample proportions, and managed to conceal the little dog upon my person. All went well until my bosom barked.”
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“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.”
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“The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.”
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“They will call me Mrs. Pat. I can't stand it. The 'Pat' is the last straw that breaks the Campbell's back.”
Mrs. Patrick Campbell, English actor
(1865 - 1940)
Real name: Beatrice Stella Tanner Cornwallis-West.