Elizabeth Taylor citations

“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.”

“There can be no love without respect.”

“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.”

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

“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”

“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”

“You might as well live”

“The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.”

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

“There is no deodorant like success.”

“I've been married too many times. How terrible to change children's affiliations, their affections — to give them the insecurity of placing their trust in someone when maybe that someone won't be there next year.”

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

“My heart…my mind… are broken. I loved Michael with all my soul and I can't imagine life without him. We had so much in common and we had such loving fun together.”

“Oh God! I'm going to miss him. I can’t yet imagine life without him. But I guess with God’s help… I'll learn. I keep looking at the photo he gave me of himself, which says, 'To my true love Elizabeth, I love you forever.”

“I still can't believe it. I don't want to believe it. It can't be so. He will live in my heart forever but it’s not enough. My life feels so empty. I don't think anyone knew how much we loved each other. The purest most giving love I've ever known.”

“You cannot have passion of any kind unless you have compassion.”

“Every day we need to tell someone we love them. Touch them. Thank them for being. It’s so important.”

“Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God… I of all people know that that doesn’t always work!”

“How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding and God knows from hate and from ignorance.”

“I don’t dwell on the miserable. I skirt around that. Give it a wave. Wave goodbye and concentrate on the good things.”

“If I love someone, I love them always.”

“If it is love, it must encompass everything. The faults as well as the things you are proud of, and one has to be tolerant of one’s intolerancies.”

“I think marriage does give a sense of oneness that just being together can’t.”

“Every breath you take today should be with someone else in mind.”

“I believe in life and I’ll fight for it. I believe you have to put up your dukes and fight, even if you don’t know what you’re fighting against.”

“I’ve always been very aware of the inner me that has nothing to do with the physical me.”

“All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.”

“As a girl, my mother told me I’m nice looking and that I have pretty eyes, but it’s not your eyes…it’s the expression behind your eyes that will make you truly beautiful.”

“I think having a fight, an out and out outrageous, ridiculous fight is one of the greatest exercises in marital togetherness.”