Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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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
Collection: Love
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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 horses.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: Love
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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.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: Dog
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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.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: People
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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 the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: Horse
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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.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: Silly
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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 a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: Love You
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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
Collection: Wisdom
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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 at you.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: Love You
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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.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: May
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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 was going splendidly," she later remarked, "until my bosom barked."
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: Funny
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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.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: Believe
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If you can read this you can read me.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: Ifs
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You can do anything in London, as long as you don't do it on the street.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: Long
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I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: Mother
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Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: Skating On Thin Ice
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Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer.
- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Collection: Friends