Quotes from bernhardt sarah iii

Had my child been a clergyman's probably he would have been strangled at birth.

My costume was a failure; it did not fit me. They had always jeered at me for my thinness and in this dress I looked like an English teapot.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

I know very well that the theatre is Sodom and Gomorrah in one.

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

Victor Hugo could not promise without keeping his word. He was not like me: I promise everything with the firm intention of keeping my promises, and two hours after I have forgotten all about them. If any one reminds me of what I have promised, I tear my hair, and to make up for my forgetfulness I say anything, I buy presents -- in fact, I complicate my life with useless worries. It has always been thus, and always will be so.