Mrs Patrick Campbell Quotes

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Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses!

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

Mrs Patrick Campbell
They tell me there is no more toilet paper in the house. How can I be expected to act a romantic part and remember to order toilet paper!

Mrs Patrick Campbell
Of George Bernard Shaw being vegetarian:
If you give him meat no woman in London will be safe.

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

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

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

Mrs Patrick Campbell
She has such pretty little eyes — And they're so close together!

Mrs Patrick Campbell
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.

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

Mrs Patrick Campbell
They will call me Mrs Pat. I can't stand it. The 'Pat' is the last straw that breaks the Campbell's back.
Upon being asked by a reporter: Why you are so frequently cold and unresponsive to — to our profession, don't you know? Have you any grouch against newspapers?

Mrs Patrick Campbell
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.

Mrs Patrick Campbell
Of her rival:
Such a clever actress. Pity she does her hair with Bovril.

Mrs Patrick Campbell
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.

Mrs Patrick Campbell
On homosexuality:
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.

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

Mrs Patrick Campbell
The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.

Mrs Patrick Campbell
My dear, I don't care what they do, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Mrs Patrick Campbell
I'm out of a job. London wants flappers, and I can't flap.
Of the theatre of 1927

Mrs Patrick Campbell
On George Bernard Shaw being a vegetarian:
You are a terrible man, Mr Shaw. One day you'll eat a beefsteak and then God help all women.

Mrs Patrick Campbell
When you were quite a little boy somebody ought to have said 'hush' just once!

Mrs Patrick Campbell