116 Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right..

(on why she called everyone "darling") Because all my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. Once I introduced a friend of mine as 'Martini'. Her name was actually 'Olive'.

They made me sound as if I'd been castrated.

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have time

If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.

I have been tight as a tick! Fried as a mink! Stiff as a goat!