Top 150 Audrey Hepburn Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn’t a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?”

— Audrey Hepburn

102. “When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I’ve always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn’t bother me one bit. I’m my own company.”

— Audrey Hepburn

103. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

104. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

105. “I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.”

— Audrey Hepburn

106. “Love is action. It isn’t just talk, and it never was.”

— Audrey Hepburn

107. “I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.”

— Audrey Hepburn

108. “Forgive Quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile.” – Audrey Hepburn.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Audrey Hepburn

110. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Audrey Hepburn

112. “I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.”

— Audrey Hepburn

113. “Well, it’s nice being top banana in the shock department.”

— Audrey Hepburn

114. “Is there anything more important than a child?”

— Audrey Hepburn

115. “In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I’ve always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers.”

— Audrey Hepburn

116. “I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.”

— Audrey Hepburn

117. “Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?”

— Audrey Hepburn

118. “There is more to sex appeal than just measurements.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Audrey Hepburn

120. “I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and have the possibility to love.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Audrey Hepburn

122. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

123. “Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?”

— Audrey Hepburn

124. “Remember; if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Audrey Hepburn

126. “Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.”

— Audrey Hepburn

127. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

128. “The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Audrey Hepburn

130. “For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.”

— Audrey Hepburn

131. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

132. “I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.”

— Audrey Hepburn

133. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

134. “If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?”

— Audrey Hepburn

135. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

136. “The most important thing is growing old gracefully.”

— Audrey Hepburn

137. “Living is like tearing through a museum.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Audrey Hepburn

139. “If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.”

— Audrey Hepburn

140. “Civilization is human rights, it is the path of setting man free from men, phobia, to survive it, we must cultivate the science of human relationships”.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Audrey Hepburn

142. “For those who are letting age get in the way of love. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

— Audrey Hepburn

143. “As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn’t love me!”

— Audrey Hepburn

144. “There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.”

— Audrey Hepburn

145. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

146. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

147. “I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it is the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills.”

— Audrey Hepburn

148. “Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to – Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.”

— Audrey Hepburn

149. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

150. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn