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)
“What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that’s what I want to give.”
—Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)
“Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the
Light—
The marrow in the bone
We dreamed was safe . . . the blood in the veins, the
sap in the tree
Were springs of Deity.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
“Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
Poor Tom will injure nothing.”
—Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 11–12)
“When a woman behaves like a man why doesn’t she behave like a nice man?”
—Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)
“Do you smile to tempt a lover, Mona Lisa?”
—Ray Evans (b. 1915)