Quote by Sarah Bernhardt
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the th

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. – Sarah Bernhardt

Other quotes by Sarah Bernhardt

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me. – Sarah Bernhardt

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Superstition
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The monster of advertisement…is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat… – Sarah Bernhardt

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Gossip
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards. – Saskya Pandita

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Beauty

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this. – Vladimir Kramnik

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Beauty

The cottage garden most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute. – Charlotte Smith

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Beauty

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. – Jane Austen

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Beauty

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I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldnt know how to get along without it. – Walt Disney

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Life

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. – Sophocles

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Wisdom

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. – Anton Chekhov

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Happiness

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Poetry