14 Quotes by Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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

If you can read this you can read me.

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!

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.

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

Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. “Everything was going splendidly,” she later remarked, “until my bosom barked.”

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

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

I once undertook on behalf of a friend to smuggle a small dog through the customs. I was of ample proportions, and managed to conceal the little dog upon my person. All went well until my bosom barked.