Beatrice Lillie Quotes

#1. In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

Beatrice Lillie

#2. I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

Beatrice Lillie

#3. I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

Beatrice Lillie

#4. I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

Beatrice Lillie

#5. Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

Howie Carr

#6. History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.

Jay Parini

#7. Another name for peace is development.

Pope John Paul II

#8. [To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

Beatrice Lillie

#9. The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

Beatrice Lillie

#10. "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Samuel Johnson

#11. I was not so insane as to attempt to bend events to conform to my policies. On the contrary, I bent my policies to accord with the unforeseen shape of the events.

William Duggan

#12. The cat arrived with a bottle of Scotch.

Christopher S. Wren

#13. I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

Penelope Mitchell

#14. Never darken my Dior again!

Beatrice Lillie

#15. Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

Beatrice Lillie

#16. Whenever I open a movie, I go secretly to the theater and stand in the back and enjoy the moment. I laugh when people laugh, and when people cry, I laugh.

Lee Byung-hun

#17. In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.

Beatrice Lillie