Helen Hayes's Quotes

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Helen Hayes

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

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Helen Hayes

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

Helen Hayes

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

Helen Hayes

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

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

Helen Hayes

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Helen Hayes

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Helen Hayes

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Helen Hayes