Top 180 Elizabeth Taylor Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I never face the day without perfume.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

2. “The public library is more than a repository of books. It’s a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

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3. “I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

4. “Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

5. “I’m a survivor – a living example of what people can go through and survive.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

6. “It’s all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

7. “Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

8. “Money is the best deodorant.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

9. “It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

10. “It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

11. “It’s not the having, it’s the getting.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

12. “Big girls need big diamonds.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

13. “I’m loud and I’m vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody’s got to, but I am not a monster. I’m not.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

14. “My favorite name for a color is “puce.” It’s kind of a dried blood color. It’s a hideous color. But I love the word. It’s so euphonic. But my favorite colors are lavender, purple, periwinkle blue, and white.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

15. “When people say: She’s got everything. I’ve only one answer: I haven’t had tomorrow.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

16. “You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

17. “The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else’s.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

18. “Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

19. “I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it’s forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can’t ride.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

20. “How can money be the root of all evil when shopping is the cure for all sadness?”

— Elizabeth Taylor

21. “There’s no deodorant like success.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

22. “I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

23. “I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

24. “The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

25. “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

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26. “You can be fat and still be sexy. It all depends on how you feel about yourself.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

27. “What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone?”

— Elizabeth Taylor

28. “I don’t entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I’m me. God knows, I’m me.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

29. “I wear perfume even when I’m alone.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

30. “I have a woman’s body and a child’s emotions.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

31. “I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being – to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

32. “A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

33. “If you can’t laugh at yourself, you’re cooked!”

— Elizabeth Taylor

34. “I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other’s ears off.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

35. “I’ve always admitted that I’m ruled by my passions.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

36. “Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

37. “I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

38. “Without homosexuals there’d be no Hollywood.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

39. “I know I’m vulgar, but would you have me any other way?”

— Elizabeth Taylor

40. “I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

41. “Acting is fun. It’s not my whole life. It’s not my entire being. It’s secondary to my life. My life is primary. I’m running in the primary, as you know.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

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42. “Give. Remember always to give. That is the one thing that will make you grow.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

43. “You can’t choose between right and wrong by taking a census.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

44. “I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don’t need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

45. “My forties are the best time I have ever gone through.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

46. “You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

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47. “I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at ping pong with their husband? Well, I did, and for all of these memories and the people in my life I feel blessed.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

48. “I don’t love acting; I love chocolate.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

49. “If we do not alter with the times, the times yet alter us. We may stand perfectly still, but our surroundings shift round and we are not in the same relationship to them for long; just as a chameleon, matching perfectly the greenness of a leaf, should know that the leaf will one day fade.”

— Elizabeth Taylor

50. “I love going to rock concerts, I love to lose myself in that vast wave of rhythm and body heat and get on the same vibe.”

— Elizabeth Taylor