WIST Quotations

Campbell, Beatrice -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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

Beatrice Campbell (1865-1940) English actress [Mrs. Patrick Campbell, née Beatrice Stella Tanner]
(Attributed)

Apocryphally a rebuke c. 1910 to a young actress who criticized an older actor as seeming too affectionate toward the handsome leading man in the production. Most famously given in this form in Alan Dent, Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1961).

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Campbell, Beatrice -- (Attributed)

Dave — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:58:53 +0000

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

Beatrice Campbell (1865-1940) English actress [Mrs. Patrick Campbell, née Beatrice Stella Tanner]
(Attributed)
(Source)

Describing her recent marriage. Quoted in Alexander Woollcott, "The First Mrs. Tanqueray," While Rome Burns (1934)

Campbell, Beatrice -- Letter to George Bernard Shaw (13 Aug 1912)

Dave — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:18:48 +0000

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Beatrice Campbell (1865-1940) English actress [Mrs. Patrick Campbell, née Beatrice Stella Tanner]
Letter to George Bernard Shaw (13 Aug 1912)