20 Quotes from Audrey Hepburn

20 QUOTES FROM AUDREY HEPBURN

“True friends are families which you can select.” ”

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

“Good things aren't supposed to just fall into

your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.”

“My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part

common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have

from everything and everyone… from my mother,

from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health

and nature.”

“My greatest ambition is to have a career

without becoming a career woman.”

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

“I don't want to be alone,

I want to be left alone.”

“You can tell more about a person by what he says

about others than you can by what others say about

him.”

“I was born with an enormous need for

affection, and a terrible need to give it.”

“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.”

“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you,

that's when I think life is over.”

“Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have

found it, you should stick to it.”

“Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hit. 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.”

“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.”

“As you grow older, you will discover that you

have two hands, one for helping yourself, the

other for helping others.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.”

“I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I

tried to stretch myself.”

“I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.”

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