Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead

“I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.”

“I'm as pure as the driven slush.”

“Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.”

“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”

“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.”

“The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner”

“There have only been two geniuses in the world Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.”

“I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.”

“(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.”

“I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.”

“Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.”

“I'm the foe of moderation the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."”

“The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.”

“There is less in this than meets the eye.”

“Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.”

“There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.”

“I'm the foe of moderation the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."”

“I don’t know what I want. Nobody knows — or if they do, they don’t know for long. I mean, you don’t want the same thing long enough for it to be What You Want From Life in capital letters. Well, ma...”

“The cynic says blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed. I say blessed is he who expecteth everything, for he can't always be disappointed.”

“Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have the time.”