tights quotes

Fate wrote her a most tremendous tragedy, and she played it in tights.

- Sir (Henry) Max(imilian) Beerbohm
  Of Queen Caroline of Brunswick. TheYellow Book, vol.3.

Pardon my long preamble. It's like a chorus girl's tightsit touches everything and covers nothing.

- Gertrude Lawrence
During an after-dinner speech.  Attributed.