Edith Bouvier Beale > Quotes

“This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don't like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for today.”
― Edith Bouvier Beale

“But you see in dealing with me, the relatives didn't know that they were dealing with a staunch character and I tell you if there's anything worse than dealing with a staunch woman... S-T-A-U-N-C-H. There's nothing worse, I'm telling you. They don't weaken, no matter what. ”


― Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale”
― Edith Bouvier Beale

“Mother wanted me to come out in a kimono, so we had quite a fight.”
― Edith Bouvier Beale

“I tell you if there's anything worse than dealing with a staunch woman... S-T-A-U-N-C-H. There's nothing worse, I'm telling you. They don't weaken, no matter what.”
― Edith Bouvier Beale

“I don't think there's any point in meeting anybody who doesn't like music.”
― Edith Bouvier Beale

“You know, people are very, very sensitive. No one takes into account how sensitive a person really is… Everybody is terribly sensitive. And other people don’t understand how sensitive a human being is. They don’t understand it. So they run roughshod over everybody.”
― Edith Bouvier Beale

“There is one thing that remains the same. Nature. Man changes and is variable. But nature remains the same. The sun and the moon and all the things go on, in spite of man. He crumbles.”
― Edith Bouvier Beale

“I only mark the hours that shine.”
― Edie Beale

“I'm pulverized by this latest thing!”
― Edith Bouvier Beale

“It's the worst thing that ever happened to anybody in America!”
― Edith Bouvier Beale