Audrey hepburn quotes

...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

Happiness is health and a short memory!

Life is a party. Dress for it.

Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.

All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air. With one enormous chair; Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Lots of choc'late for me to eat; Lots of coal makin' lots of heat. Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet, Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Oh, so loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still! I would never budge 'til spring crept over my window sill. Someone's head restin' on my knee; Warm and tender as he can be, who takes good care of me; Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly.

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

I love people who make me laugh!

Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.

I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for.

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly ... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do. Nothing else much matters, there is no complicated diplomacy, when a child is starving. It's simple. And we'd better do something about it. For our sakes, too. That is, if we want to continue to call ourselves human.

Laughing is the best calorie burner.

To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

To be happy - that's all that matters.

I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?

I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

There are more important things than outward appearance. No amount of makeup can cover an ugly personality.

I believe in miracles.

I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... All of which I've earned a living doing.

If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

Paris is always a good idea.

When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company.

We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life.

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.

The most important job in life is being a mom.

For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart

As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it... Either you have to face up to it and tell yourself you're not going to be eighteen all your life, or be prepared for a terrible shock when you see the wrinkles and white hair. Getting older doesn't frighten me, but I wish I didn't have to because I like life a lot.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.

I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

To pull off any look, wear it with confidence.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

Who thinks you're as fantastic as your dog does?

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. I really hope no one misinterprets this quote as being about masturbation.

Only the absolutely determined people succeed.

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there's nothing more to live for.

nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.

I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets

Never throw out anyone.

Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against humanity-to think that way.

Never regret anything that makes you smile.

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

Happy girls are always the prettiest

True friends are families which you can select.

I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.

There is a shade of red for every woman.

It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it?

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics.

How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

Is there anything more important than a child?

I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.

My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection.

Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

Living is like tearing through a museum.

To be beautiful lips - say kind words. To my eyes were beautiful - radiate good. A woman's beauty is not in the clothes, not in its shape or hairstyle. Beauty woman in her eyes, because the eyes - is the gateway to the heart, where love lives.

Whatever you love most, you fear you might lose, you know it can change. Why do you look from left to right when you cross the street? Because you don’t want to get run over. But, you still cross the street.

I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.