Lillie Langtry famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

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

#Life #Sunshine #Exercise
It is [every womanâ€™s] right to ignore the dictates of fashion and dress in a manner that is becoming to her own character and personality.
-- Lillie Langtry

#Fashion #Character #Personality
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

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

#Husband #France #My Husband
I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.
-- Lillie Langtry

#Racing #Acting #Lapses
I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco.
-- Lillie Langtry

#Flower #House #Monaco
I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done
-- Lillie Langtry

#Done #Blame #Willing
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

#Lonely #Memories #Actresses
After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.
-- Lillie Langtry

#Angel #Singing
I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage
-- Lillie Langtry

#Wonderful #Great Things #Persons
Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
-- Lillie Langtry

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

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

#Responsibility #House #Enough
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

#Lonely #Years #Artistic
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

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

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

#Get Better #Dear God #Ends
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#Firsts #First Time
Each little chapter has its place.
-- Lillie Langtry

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

#Believe #Population #Towns

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