Proportion Quotes by 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…

— 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…

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little…

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

“It doesn't make any difference what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the…

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

If you can read this you can read me.

— 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

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

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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

— Mrs. Patrick Campbell