Quotes from Elizabeth Taylor

He told himself that it would soon be over: then he saw that tomorrow loomed, too, and – such was his mood – all the days of his life.

Yes, I'm his mother. We come in at the beginning and the end. The rest of the time they're too grand for us.

He disdained to learn from so drab a teacher as Experience.

Kate has no job, nor does she pursue an interest; she cannot develop. Her life is as circular as the novel it defines.

It embarrasses him when I try to overhear conversations in restaurants, or sit and stare with my mouth open in the train, and what good does it do, since other people's lives remain an illusion? You may catch at their clothes and are sometimes left with shreds of them in your hands, but the people themselves are gone and then what little treasure and brightness you may bring home to yourself… changes at once to darkness, is absorbed by your own shadow.

What I detest is the way our breasts go out sideways when we get older. They look as if they're tired of one another's company.

Sabes?, si no alientas de entrada a las personas, aunque sea de vez en cuando, se mueren de tristeza o se transforman en Hitler

A medida que envejecían, las mujeres parecían volverse cada vez más masculinas, mientas que el señor Osmond, en cambio, se parecía cada día más a una vieja

La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad

Un niño pequeño aprende algo nuevo cada día; un anciona olvida algo cada día. Los nombres desaparecen, las fechas ya no significan nada, las secuencias se tornan confusas y las caras borrosas. La primera infancia y la vejez son épocas agotadoras

Kate was always, like most mothers, wasting words and knowing she wasted them.

She tipped her cup over the saucer and then looked at the tea leaves. "It's a fine thing for a Marxist to say," she added, "but I do see signs of happiness here." She cheated, though, moving one tea leaf alongside another to improve the omens.

Lucky for us Emily was not a man," said Julia, "or she might have drunk herself to death at the Black Bull. It was better to write Wuthering Heights, but she really had no choice.

For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts.

Poor Mr Lippincote could not help dying. Death does not always give us a chance of tidying up. (118)

It embarrasses him when I try to overhear conversations in restaurants, or sit and stare with my mouth open in the train, and what good does it do, since other people's lives remain an illusion? You may catch at their clothes and are sometimes left with shreds of them in your hands, but the people themselves are gone and then when little treasure and brightness you may bring home to yourself… changes at once to darkness, is absorbed by your own shadow.

Seems like we always spend the best part of our time just saying goodbye.

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

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

Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time.

Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together.

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

When I'm not with the one I love, I love the one I'm with.

I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.