Edith Evans famous quotes

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
-- Edith Evans

#Nice #Women #Men

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.
-- Edith Evans

#Real #Actors #Goes On

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
-- Edith Evans

#Acting #Exam #Knows

Death is my neighbor now.
-- Edith Evans

#Death #Neighbor

Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.
-- Edith Evans

#People #Awful #Actresses

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
-- Edith Evans

#Giving #Theatre #Want

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
-- Edith Evans

#Successful #Artist #Kind

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
-- Edith Evans

#Expectations #Imagine #I Can

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him.

O loving woman, man's fulfillment, sweet, Completing him not otherwise complete! How void and useless the sad remnant left Were he of her, his nobler part, bereft.

Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.