Shirley Bassey Quotes & Sayings

16 most famous Shirley Bassey quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's an 87 year old Welsh musician born on Jan 8, 1937.

“You don't get older, you get better.”

“I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.”

“Diamonds never leave you... men do!”

“I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.”

“No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.”

“I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.”

“I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.”

“It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.”