Top 14 Helen Hayes Quotes



Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

 

Yes I have doubted. I have wandered off the path but I always return. It is intuitive an intrinsic built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home.

 

I was once the typical daughter then the easily recognizable wife and then the quintessential mother. I seem always to have reminded people of someone in their family. Perhaps I am just the triumph of Plain Jane.

 

Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

 

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

 

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.

 

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

 

 

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