Dame Edith Evans

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    “I sometimes think when I’m on the stage “What do they mean? Is this great, what I’m doing now?””
    —Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)

    “When a woman behaves like a man why doesn’t she behave like a nice man?”
    —Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)

    “When
    Sir
    Beelzebub called for his syllabub in the hotel in Hell
    Where Proserpine first fell,”
    —Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

    “Come dame or maid, be not afraid,
    Poor Tom will injure nothing.”
    —Unknown. Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song (l. 11–12)

    “Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.”
    —Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

    “My bones denounce the buckboard bounce and the cactus hurts my toes.”
    —Ray Evans (b. 1915)