Famous quotes containing the words dame edith evans, edith evans, dame edith, dame, edith and/or evans:
“I can’t imagine going on when there are no more expectations.”
—Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)
“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.”
—Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)
“But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran
Carrying the world’s weight of the world’s filth
And the filth in the heart of Man—
Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat
than that of the Sun.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
“You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.”
—Geoffrey Homes (1902–1977)
“Still falls the Rain—
Dark as the world of man, black as our loss—
Blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails
Upon the Cross.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
“My bones denounce the buckboard bounce and the cactus hurts my toes.”
—Ray Evans (b. 1915)