Audrey Hepburn quotes:

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  • 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.

  • I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

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

  • Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

  • I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles.

  • There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. 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.

  • Water is life, and clean water means health.

  • Paris is always a good idea.

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

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

  • Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

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

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

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

  • Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

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

  • There is more to sex appeal than just measurements

  • 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.

  • For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

  • For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms.

  • My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.

  • People in these places don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognise the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump UNICEF.

  • Auntie Mame, who was the british lady?" 'Oh, she's from Pittsburgh' 'But she had the acc-' 'Well, when your from Pittsburgh you gotta do something

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

  • 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.

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

  • I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

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

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

  • This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

  • There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.

  • 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 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.

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

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

  • Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

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

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

  • Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

  • Happy girls are always the prettiest

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.

  • I believe in miracles.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.

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

  • You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

  • I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

  • I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

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

  • Never regret anything that makes you smile.

  • 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.

  • Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.

  • 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.

  • Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  • 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.

  • Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?

  • If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

  • There is a shade of red for every woman.

  • 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.

  • I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

  • Happy girls are the prettiest

  • The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.

  • When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman

  • True friends are families which you can select.

  • Happiness is health and a short memory!

  • I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.

  • True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.

  • I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II,

  • It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know...I at least get a dollar a year, but they don't.

  • I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

  • I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.

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

  • You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.

  • 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.

  • People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump 'UNICEF.'

  • My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

  • There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

  • I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

  • You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

  • Laughing is the best calorie burner.

  • Life is a party. Dress for it.

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

  • 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.

  • To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long; you're just sad, that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling? Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it. Nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!

  • 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.

  • To pull off any look, wear it with confidence.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.'

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