Lillie Langtry Quotes
"I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: End)
"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
"Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Life, Work, Exercise, Spirit)
"Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Dogs, Hate)
"I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Age, Now)
"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
(Related: Happiness, Life, Lonely, Memories, Woman)
"I do not regret one moment of my life."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Life, Regret)
"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Houses, Responsibility)
"I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Acting, Interest, Racing)
"I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Blame)
"I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage."
- Lillie Langtry
"I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Flowers)
"I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Now, Old, Saying, Shame)
"I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less."
- Lillie Langtry
"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
(Related: Life, Lonely)
"Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: England, Will)
"It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Time, Act, First)
"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
(Related: England, Quiet)
"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: HusbFrance)
"No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Being, World)
"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
(Related: London, Night)
"Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Being, Flattery, Treatment)
"Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Sympathy, Pain)
"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Gardens)
"The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Work)
"They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Beauty, Famous, Night)
"Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?"
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Old, Want, Woman, World)
"I'm not afraid. I never liked long last acts."
- Lillie Langtry
"Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Vision, Limits, Memories, Yesterday)
"After being so bad I could hear the angels singing."
- Lillie Langtry
(Related: Angels, Being, Singing)