Hermione Gingold Quotes

#1. Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

Hermione Gingold

#2. There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.

Matt Haig

#3. People who think about the past have no future.

Hermione Gingold

#4. My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.

Hermione Gingold

#5. She'd also liked being within a wall of books. There, she'd felt as close to safe as she could remember

Sarah Beth Durst

#6. There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.

Gautama Buddha

#7. My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them.

Hermione Gingold

#8. To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit he was, to all outward appearances. But to those who knew him well, he was a perfect gentleman.

Hermione Gingold

#9. She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.

Hermione Gingold

#10. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

Hermione Gingold

#11. One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

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#12. Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.

Hermione Gingold

#13. A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

Hermione Gingold

#14. There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

Hermione Gingold

#15. Love is a worn-out word. People love their cat, they love their house. I've never been in love with anyone but myself.

Hermione Gingold

#16. Every person has the truth in his heart. No matter how complicated his circumstances, no matter how others look at him from the outside, and no matter how deep or shallow the truth dwells in his heart, once his heart is pieced with a crystal needle, the truth will gush forth like a geyser.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#17. A great city is a great solitude.

Hermione Gingold

#18. What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

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#19. I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

Hermione Gingold

#20. [When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

Hermione Gingold

#21. O my heart! Love God as the chatrik loves the rain drops,
Who even when fountains are full and the land green,
Is not satisfied as long as it cannot get a drop of rain ...

Guru Nanak