Edwin Booth famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
-- Edwin Booth

#Love #Heart #Littles
An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
-- Edwin Booth

#Snow #Actors
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
-- Edwin Booth

#Fate #Actors #Spirit
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
-- Edwin Booth

#Fall #Play #Found
A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.
-- Edwin Booth

#Christian #Rivals #Rejoice
A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.
-- Edwin Booth

#Art #Self #Training

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
Piglet: "How do you spell 'love'?" Winnie the Pooh: "You don't spell it...you feel it."
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in our hearts.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.

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