Audrey Hepburn Quotes
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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.
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There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.
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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.
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A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
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I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.
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I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for.
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Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.
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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.
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Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?
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Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
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If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.
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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.
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I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -
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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.
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And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.
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Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.
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There is more to sex appeal than just measurements.
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Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets.
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
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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.