Quotes by Sarah Bernhardt

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
– Sarah Bernhardt
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
– Sarah Bernhardt
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
– Sarah Bernhardt
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
– Sarah Bernhardt
Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.
– Sarah Bernhardt
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
– Sarah Bernhardt
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
– Sarah Bernhardt