Quotes by Smyth, Dame Ethel

The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it beh >>

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I >>

Quotations about Fame

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. >>

Fame is a constant effort >>

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've >>

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel