Dinah Quotes

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

I always look to my mom for strength and courage when I need it.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

Don't lose a diamond while chasing glitter honey

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

My best Valentine's Day was when someone gave me a teddy bear. It was a really, really big bear!

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

Trouble is part of your life

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair.

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, for ever.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.

So I regard my part in Genevieve as a real challenge

Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role

It's a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you've started your day right.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

There never was night that had no morn.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

I lead with my heart all the time.

O, the sweet, sweet twilight just before the time of rest, When the black clouds are driven away, and the stormy winds suppressed.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it

But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.

Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.

I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.