Lillie Langtry

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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I must hurry back to my house and my flowers in Monaco. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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I'm not afraid. I never liked long last acts. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

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