In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

- Beatrice Lillie

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

- Beatrice Lillie

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

- Beatrice Lillie

I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

- Beatrice Lillie

Never darken my Dior again!

- Beatrice Lillie

[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

- Beatrice Lillie

In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forge…

- Beatrice Lillie

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

- Beatrice Lillie

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

- Beatrice Lillie