Audrey Hepburn Quotes

“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.”

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.”

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

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

“Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.”

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

“For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.”

“Happiness is health and a short memory!”

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

“I love people who make me laugh!”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.”

“For entertainment, a party bears no one in as much as those who are not there. ­”

“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.”

“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.”

“Is there anything more important than a child?”