More - Helen Hayes Quotes

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.

Helen Hayes

 American Actress

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Helen Hayes

 American Actress

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Helen Hayes

 American Actress Life

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

Helen Hayes

 

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

Helen Hayes

 American Actress Dignity

When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee

Helen Hayes

 Coffee

Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.

Helen Hayes

 American Actress Consequences

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Helen Hayes

 American Actress

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in.

Helen Hayes

 

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Helen Hayes

 American Actress Habit