After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.

It is [every woman’s] right to ignore the dictates of fashion and dress in a manner that is becoming to her own character and personality.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.

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.