Patrick Campbell Quotes

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

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

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

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!

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

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

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

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

My back swing off the first tee had put him in mond of an eldery woman of dubious morals trying to struggle out of a dress too tight around the shoulders.

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

You can do anything in London, as long as you don't do it on the street.

If you can read this you can read me.

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

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

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.

It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

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