Sarah Bernhardt quotes

" Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. " # Power

" All power in human hands is liable to be abused. " # Power

" The monster of advertisement... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat, to spit out again at the public. " # Publicity # Gossip # Advertising

" For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. " # Acting and Actors # Theater # Arts and Artists

" We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them. " # Public Opinion # Friends and Friendship # Love

" I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me. " # Superstition # Critics and Criticism # Travel and Tourism

" Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. " # Quotations # Food and Eating # Wine

" Legend remains victorious in spite of history. " # Quotations # Victory # Fame

" Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country. " # Quotations # Nations # America

" Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts. " # Quotations # Acting and Actors # Action