Sarah Bernhardt Quotes

“He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.”

“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.”

“Legend remains victorious in spite of history.”

“Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.”

“What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating drinking and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.”

“Captain West advanced to meet me, and before our outstretched hands touched, before his face broke from repose to greeting and the lips moved to speech, I got the first astonishing impact of his personality. Long, lean, in his face a touch of race I as yet could only sense, he was as cool as the day was cold, as poised as a king or emperor, as remote as the farthest fixed star, as neutral as a proposition of Euclid. And then, just ere our hands met, a twinkle of--oh--such distant and controlled geniality quickened the many tiny wrinkles in the corner of the eyes; the clear blue of the eyes was suffused by an almost colourful warmth; the face, too, seemed similarly to suffuse; the thin lips, harsh-set the instant before, were as gracious as Bernhardt's when she moulds sound into speech. ”

“We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.”

“The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.”

“Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.”

“...a broken nation, under siege, divisible, without liberty and injustice for a lot...”