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Mrs. Patrick Campbell

(1865–1940) Stage Actor United Kingdom

19 quotes in 105 categories

Mrs. Patrick Campbell was a stage actor from the United Kingdom, best known for Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence.

Quick Facts About Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Born: February 9, 1865
Died: April 9, 1940
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Stage Actor
Notable works: Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell: Their Correspondence
Spouse: Patrick Campbell

About Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Beatrice Rose Stella Tanner, better known by her stage name Mrs Patrick Campbell or Mrs Pat, was an English stage actress, best known for appearing in plays by Shakespeare, Shaw and Barrie. These included Shaw's Pygmalion where she originated the role of Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in the West End in 1914. She also toured the United States and appeared briefly in films.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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…

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Charming

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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 -…

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Blame

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

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Break

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

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Accepting

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

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Can do

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

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Humor

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

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Bosoms

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If you can read this you can read me.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Books

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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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Commandments

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

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Bed

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

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Do you know

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

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Laughter

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

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Best love

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Wedlock: the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.It doesn't matter what you do in…

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Bed

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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…

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Behalf

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Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything…

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Bosoms

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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…

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Believe

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I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the…

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Care

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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…

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