Mercedes McCambridge Quotes

“I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.”

“I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.”

“Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.”

“Mercedes is a pretty princess”

“My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.”

“People say ‘dogs who roam in Mercedes are Lucky’, this is your feeling, not the Dog’s!!!”

“Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.”

“Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the only one to comprehend you. And had she crossed your path, and you had crushed her like a frail glass, still, Edmond, still she must have admired you! Like the gulf between me and the past, there is an abyss between you, Edmond, and the rest of mankind; and I tell you freely, that the comparison I drew between you and other men will be one of my greatest tortures. No! there is nothing in the world to resemble you in worth and goodness!”

“Well, we could have just given him a horse and sent him on his way, but... Ancaladar ate the horse.”

“Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.”