Top 53 Lillie Quotes
#1. Work made me more streetwise because you can be so sheltered at home. I'd definitely encourage my kids Lillie and Karl, who are nine and seven, to get Saturday jobs in the future.
Rebecca Ferguson
#2. My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.
Arlen Specter
#3. I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
Bert Williams
#4. 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
#5. Ya got to watch them bears, Lillie Girl," her father said, looking worried, " 'specially the renegade ones. They'll turn you every way but loose.
B. J. Daniels
#6. In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.
Beatrice Lillie
#7. The most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart.
Lillie Devereux Blake
#8. I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
Lillie Langtry
#9. It is better to have the power of self-protection than to depend on any man, whether he be the Governor in his chair of State, orthe hunted outlaw wandering through the night, hungry and cold and with murder in his heart.
Lillie Devereux Blake
#10. I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.
Lillie Langtry
#11. I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.
Lillie Langtry
#12. On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.
Lillie Langtry
#13. I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.
Lillie Devereux Blake
#14. I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.
Lillie Langtry
#15. I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done.
Lillie Langtry
#16. After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.
Lillie Langtry
#17. The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
Lillie Langtry
#18. It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.
Lillie Langtry
#19. Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
Lillie Langtry
#20. The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
Lillie Langtry
#22. Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
Lillie Langtry
#24. The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
Beatrice Lillie
#25. [To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!
Beatrice Lillie
#26. My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.
Lillie Langtry
#28. 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
#29. I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.
Beatrice Lillie
#30. Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.
Lillie Langtry
#31. They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
Lillie Langtry
#32. My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.
Lillie Langtry
#33. It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.
Lillie Langtry
#34. Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.
Lillie Devereux Blake
#35. Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
Lillie Langtry
#36. 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
#37. I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.
Lillie Langtry
#38. I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.
Lillie Langtry
#39. We are tired of the pretense that we have special privileges and the reality that we have none; of the fiction that we are queens, and the fact that we are subjects.
Lillie Devereux Blake
#40. You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.
Lillie Langtry
#41. I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.
Lillie Langtry
#42. I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.
Lillie Langtry
#43. It is [every woman's] right to ignore the dictates of fashion and dress in a manner that is becoming to her own character and personality.
Lillie Langtry
#44. I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.
Lillie Langtry
#45. If Eve was inferior to Adam because she was created after him, then Adam was inferior to the fishes, because they preceded him.
Lillie Devereux Blake
#46. 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
#48. Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.
Lillie Langtry
#51. Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?
Lillie Langtry
#52. Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.
Lillie Langtry
#53. No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.
Lillie Langtry
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