Quotations and phrases - Lillie Langtry

After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.
-- Lillie Langtry

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
-- Lillie Langtry

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.
-- Lillie Langtry

Doctors are kind critics, letting an actor down easily. Don't you think an actor knows when he gives a bad performance?
-- Lillie Langtry

Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that.
-- Lillie Langtry

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.
-- Lillie Langtry

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

I am trying to grow rhododendron where they have never grown before. I am dreadfully scientific on soils and so on.
-- Lillie Langtry

I do not regret one moment of my life.
-- Lillie Langtry

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.
-- Lillie Langtry

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.
-- Lillie Langtry

I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done.
-- Lillie Langtry

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.
-- Lillie Langtry

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.
-- Lillie Langtry

I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.
-- Lillie Langtry

I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less.
-- Lillie Langtry

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.
-- Lillie Langtry

I'm not afraid. I never liked long last acts.
-- 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

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

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.
-- Lillie Langtry

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

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.
-- Lillie Langtry

No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.
-- Lillie Langtry

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

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.
-- Lillie Langtry

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
-- Lillie Langtry

The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens.
-- Lillie Langtry

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.
-- Lillie Langtry

There isn't any woman who doesn't look every day and minute of her age. We can't be, nor look, younger than we are, but we can be well preserved.
-- Lillie Langtry

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
-- Lillie Langtry

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?
-- Lillie Langtry

Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.
-- Lillie Langtry

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.
-- Lillie Langtry

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