Quotes by Bankhead, Tallulah

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. >>

I'm as pure as the driven slush. >>

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it >>

Quotations about Excess

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposit >>

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a >>

To go too far is as bad as to fall short. >>

Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah