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Sarah Bernhardt Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the french actress Sarah Bernhardt on topics like love, proportions, beauty

  • Life begets life. Energy creates energy.It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

    — Sarah Bernhardt on wealth
    13
  • Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

    — Sarah Bernhardt on achieved
    7
  • The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers;

    he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

    — Sarah Bernhardt on actor
    1
  • I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.

    — Sarah Bernhardt on adore
    1
  • The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.

    — Sarah Bernhardt on theater
    1
  • Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there.

    It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country.

    — Sarah Bernhardt on adopted
    1
  • For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

    — Sarah Bernhardt on theater
    1
  • I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts.

    As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.

    — Sarah Bernhardt on asked
    1
  • What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

    — Sarah Bernhardt on art
    1
  • We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd...from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions.

    — Sarah Bernhardt on commitment
    0
  • Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself.

    He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

    — Sarah Bernhardt on actor
    0
  • Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

    — Sarah Bernhardt on love
    0
  • About Sarah Bernhardt

    Name Sarah Bernhardt
    Quotes 16 quotations
    Nationality French
    Profession Actress
    Birthday October 16
    About Sarah Bernhardt (October 22, 1844 – March 26, 1923) was a legendary French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas. She developed a reputation as a serious dramatic actress, earning the nickname "The Divine Sarah.
    Top topics love, proportions, beauty, fine, live
  • 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 on superstition
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  • All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient moments together. Now I cannot live apart from you...Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

    — Sarah Bernhardt on love
    0
  • 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 on gossip
    0
  • You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle.

    It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.

    — Sarah Bernhardt on actors
    0
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