Mrs. Patrick Campbell Quotes

British stage actress (1865–1940)

Beatrice Stella Tanner Campbell (9 February 1865 – 10 April 1940) was a British actress, the first actress to play Eliza Doolittle, in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. Born Beatrice Stella Tanner she was most commonly known as Mrs. Patrick Campbell or "Mrs. Pat" in reference to her first husband, who died in the Boer War.

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Alternative Names: Mrs Patrick Campbell • Beatrice Stella Tanner • Mrs Pat • Beatrice Stella Campbell • Stella Tanner Campbell • Beatrice Stella Cornwallis-West

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Does it really matter what these affectionate people do — so long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses!

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

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!

She has such pretty little eyes — And they're so close together!

The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.

That's because Tallulah's always skating on thin ice, and they want to be there when it breaks.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell Quotes

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