Helen Hayes quotes

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.