Beatrice Lillie famous quotes

[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!
-- Beatrice Lillie

#Dior #Soup #Waiter

In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.
-- Beatrice Lillie

#Laughter #Mind #Theatre

Never darken my Dior again!
-- Beatrice Lillie

#Fashion #Dior

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.
-- Beatrice Lillie

#Mother #Memorable #Meals

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.
-- Beatrice Lillie

#Paint #Ability

I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.
-- Beatrice Lillie

#Mother #Age #Meals

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.
-- Beatrice Lillie

#Self #Average #Common Sense

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
-- Beatrice Lillie

#Vow #Contracts #Ceremony

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.
-- Beatrice Lillie

#Knitting #Relaxation #Going Out

My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.

I don't see Dior as something that could become mine. I see it as a dialogue with the women who wear it. I want to stay connected to them rather than to an abstract brand.

Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.

Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches, And soup, And peanut butter cookies, Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil, But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you!

Tibby cried into her soup when it finally came. "I'm scared... ," she told it. The carrots and peas made no reply, but she felt better for having told them.

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters