Quotes from Mrs. Patrick Campbell

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

Marriage is the deep deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they dont do it in the streets and frighten the horses