Audrey Hepburn Quotes
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Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.
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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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I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.
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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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Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?
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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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To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.
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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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And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.
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I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.
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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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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.
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
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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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On her UNICEF work: I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.
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I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
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I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.
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There is more to sex appeal than just measurements.
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Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.
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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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Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets.
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Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
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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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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.