Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.

A woman is as young as her knees.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

My wife is very fit and looking younger every day, whereas I'm looking older day by day.

In my 40s, I expect to finally reap the average-looking girl's revenge. I've entered the stage of life where you don't need to be beautiful; simply by being well-preserved and not obese, I would now pass for pretty.

When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.

I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.

When a woman's face is wrinkled And her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday! Aside she's cast, No one respect will pay; Remember, Lasses, remember. And while the sun shines make hay: You must not expect in December, The flowers you gathered in May.

I'm not going to make a judgment on plastic surgery because I don't have to yet. I mean, I'd like to think I'll feel great about myself and age gracefully, but then I think, Well, what if I do want a little bit of something? I'm open to being open.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

Next to that kid, we all look like onions.

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B. Once you were beautiful.

All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of the laws of beauty. Under the conditions of our climate, shadow gives light its worth; sternness enhances mildness; solemnity, splendor. Varying proportions of size support and subserve one another.

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.

One of the few advantages to not being beautiful is that one usually gets better-looking as one gets older. I am, in fact, at this very moment gaining my looks.