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Tallulah Bankhead

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Details about Tallulah Bankhead's life are scarce, but their observations have traveled far and wide. Their thinking spans from Time to Education, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. 12 of Tallulah Bankhead's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Time, Education, Morning, Love, and Life. One quote that captures their voice: "Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time."

“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.”

— Tallulah Bankhead

Education

All Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead

“Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.”

— Tallulah Bankhead

Education

“Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.”

— Tallulah Bankhead

Good

“I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.”

— Tallulah Bankhead

Alone

“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”

— Tallulah Bankhead

Funny

“(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.”

— Tallulah Bankhead

Car

“The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.”

— Tallulah Bankhead

Morning

“I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.”

— Tallulah Bankhead

Love

“I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.”

— Tallulah Bankhead

Education