Bea Quotes

#1. Leo was the only one who had never petitioned Francie for a loan using The Nest as collateral. Jack and Melody and Bea had all asked at one time that she consider an earlier dispersal, but she stubbornly refused.Until Leo's accident.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#2. Blake and Livia were next to exit. He took the steps before she could and turned to offer her his hand, like a knight escorting his queen. Livia took Blake's hand and hugged his offered arm. Bea's photographer-nephew's flash blinded them as it captured their moment for all time.

Debra Anastasia

#3. Estelle Getty used the language of a truck driver, or a sailor. Bea Arthur didn't wear shoes. Bea Arthur was a comic genius. Her timing was extraordinary.

Leland Orser

#4. If Chess is the switch," Loretta said, "how does he turn the Fog off?"

Bea bit her lower lip. "I don't know - ask Chess."
"How would I know?" I said. "You try being a switch.

Joel N. Ross

#5. Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio.

Millicent Martin

#6. You talk as if Bea were a trophy.'
'No, as if she were a blessing,' Fermin corrected.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#7. Keep moving!"
"Bea's arguing with the floor.

Joel N. Ross

#8. You read the Miss Bea Haven column?" She sounded pleasantly surprised, almost flattered.
"Of course not. A column where the sexiest woman on earth pleasures herself with sex toys and then writes about it? Gross.

Tiffany Reisz

#9. She read a short report in The Times datelined Vienna and headed THE SERVIAN SCARE. She asked Bea if Russia would defend Serbia against the Austrians. "I hope not!" Bea said, alarmed. "I don't want my brother to go to war." Maud

Ken Follett

#10. Bea did not want a new mother. She'd hardly even seen the one she once had, except for glimpses out the window when her mother was climbing into a carriage to go off to a party. She'd been as beautiful as an angel, all sparkling and laughing in her lovely gowns, but not much use.

Amanda McCabe

#11. Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#12. Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#13. Some days making it to the end of the day is quite the victory.
Bea

Jennifer Brown

#14. Bea is the only good thing I've ever done in my life,' he said. 'Take care of her for me.'
My father went with him to the door and watched him walk away down Calle Santa Ana, with that sadness that softens men who are aware that they are growing old together.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. There is no friend like a sister / In calm or stormy weather; / To cheer one on the tedious way, / To fetch one if one goes astray, / To lift one if one totters down, / To strengthen whilst one stands.'" Bea was much struck by this. "How lovely,

Lauren Willig

#16. Bea broke up the band.

Andrew Barger

#17. The group parted happily for the scheduled lunch break, planning to return at 3:00 to look at some potential Yentes and Perchiks, beginning with Bea Arthur.

Alisa Solomon

#18. Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Carla H. Krueger

#19. So damn beautiful."
She grinned. "So you've said."
Perched on his elbow, stretched alongside her body, he'd say it again and again until she tired of hearing it. "You're beautiful."
"Uh huh."
"So fucking bea-"
"All right, Casanova. Enough!

Pam Godwin

#20. Bea's smile softened. "I was that connected to my Robert, as well. In many ways, losing him was worse than losing Leah. She was my blood, but he was my heart.

Sharon Sala

#21. Miles smiled. "Can you keep a secret?"
Bea snorted. "Did I tell you what you were in for if you married my daughter?"
"No," Miles conceded.
"Well, then," she said, as if that settled the matter.

Richard Russo

#22. I worked on this Showtime series called 'Beggars and Choosers,' this was like 2000, and Bea Arthur guest-starred on our show. I always loved 'The Golden Girls,' and thought she was a supreme comedy actress, supreme actress period.

Sherri Saum

#23. So are we actually cooking Radiasure?" Carols asks as he plops on his brother's bed. "Because if Mom and Dad catch us we'll never see the outside of the confession bootha gain."
Bea rolls her eyes. "Nothing new for you.

Natalie Whipple

#24. Settled for a blooming redhead from Waco, Takes-us, name of Molly Bea Archer, carefully cut her out of the pack and trundled her, tipsy and willing, back to the Busted Flush.

John D. MacDonald

#25. Oh, Lolita, you are my girl, as Vee was Poe's and Bea Dante's, and what little girl would not like to whirl in a circular skirt and scanties?

Vladimir Nabokov

#26. But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion ... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.

William Shakespeare

#27. My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'

Valerie Azlynn

#28. PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.

Bea Arthur

#29. Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

Bea Arthur

#30. I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

Bea Arthur

#31. I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

Bea Arthur

#32. Did Cap'n Vidious leave that? He is such a cuddlebunny."
"Yeah," I said, "that's exactly how I'd describe him.

Joel N. Ross

#33. The pain was greater than the shame

Bea Turvey

#34. I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

Bea Arthur

#35. I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

Bea Arthur

#36. I can't imagine working without and audience.

Bea Arthur

#37. I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

Bea Arthur

#38. The very sight of a daffodil still makes me shiver, because spring in the north of England is always so bitter.

Bea Davenport

#39. I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

Bea Arthur

#40. I ... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

Bea Arthur

#41. You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.

Bea Arthur

#42. No day passed that did not present an opportunity to become obsessed with a new area of concern.

Bea Gonzalez

#43. I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

Bea Arthur

#44. I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

Bea Arthur

#45. But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

Bea Arthur

#46. What we did not truly use, need, and love had to go. This would become our motto for decluttering.

Bea Johnson

#47. Writing is fun. Promoting? Not so much...

Bea Cannon

#48. My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.

Bea Arthur

#49. I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

Bea Arthur

#50. Reducing also results in a simplified lifestyle that allows you to focus on quality versus quantity and experiences versus stuff.

Bea Johnson

#51. I come from a small town in Maryland. I came to California in 1972 to begin Maude.

Bea Arthur

#52. All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

Bea Arthur

#53. Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me ... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

Bea Arthur

#54. Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

Bea Arthur

#55. I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.

Bea Arthur

#56. refuse what you do not need; reduce what you do need; reuse what you consume; recycle what you cannot refuse, reduce, or reuse; and rot (compost) the rest.

Bea Johnson

#57. In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of display it with a twinkle of the eye and not a guffaw. But there's no juice in that for me.

Bea Arthur