Hermione Gingold Quotations

Hermione Gingold was a British actress known for her sharp-tongued, eccentric persona.

She was the daughter of an upper-class Austrian born Jewish financier Lionel Gingold and an English-born Jew, Kate Walters.

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Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.
- Saturday Review, 16 April 1955; quoted in Ned Sherrin, The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations

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Sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered — and still do — which is the more important.