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Last updated on April 20, 2025.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Beatrice Rose Stella Cornwallis-West, better known by her stage name Mrs Patrick Campbell or Mrs Pat, was an English stage actress, best known for appearing in plays by Shakespeare, Shaw and Barrie. She also toured the United States and appeared briefly in films.

English - Actress | February 9, 1865 - April 9, 1940

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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.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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."

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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!

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Wedlock: the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

You can do anything in London, as long as you don't do it on the street. — © Mrs. Patrick Campbell

You can do anything in London, as long as you don't do it on the street.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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. — © Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

If you can read this you can read me.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Our best loved friend is always in some way our peer.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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