Helen Hayes

Helen Hayes

14 quotes

Known primarily as an American actress, Helen Hayes also happens to be one of the most quotable figures in our collection. Their thinking spans from Good to Work, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 18 quotes from Helen Hayes, each offering a different angle on Good, Work, Truth, Love, and Age. Perhaps their most recognizable line: "People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me."

“Age is not important unless you're a cheese.”

— Helen Hayes

Age

All Quotes by Helen Hayes

“Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.”

— Helen Hayes

Work

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

— Helen Hayes

Morning

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

— Helen Hayes

Art

“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

Love

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

— Helen Hayes

Good

“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

Christmas

“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

Courage

“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.”

— Helen Hayes

Love

“Age is not important unless you're a cheese.”

— Helen Hayes

Age

“Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.”

— Helen Hayes

Truth

“I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage.”

— Helen Hayes

Good

“Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.”

— Helen Hayes

Good

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

— Helen Hayes

Age

“The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.”

— Helen Hayes

Good