“Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!”
— Reply to a young actress who asserted that an older actor in a production showed too much affection for the leading man (c. 1910); as reported by Alan Dent in Mrs. Patrick Campbell, p. 78 (1961).
“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!”
— Letter to George Bernard Shaw (1 November 1912) published in Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1952), p. 52; this was later used in the play Dear Liar : A Biography in Two Acts (1960) by Jerome Kilty, an adaptation of the correspondence between Shaw and Campbell.
“The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.”
— Quoted in Alexander Woollcott, “The First Mrs. Tanqueray,” While Rome Burns (1934)
“She has such pretty little eyes — And they're so close together!”
— Comment about actress Norma Shearer, quoted in They Had Faces Then: Super Stars, Stars, and Starlets Of The 1930's (1974) by John Shipman Springer and, Jack D. Hamilton, p. 54
“That's because Tallulah's always skating on thin ice, and they want to be there when it breaks.”
