Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

I think the saying that diamonds are a girl's best friend can't be truer. Which girl doesn't love diamonds?

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

Big girls need big diamonds.

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

I carry a little collection of jewelry I love with me, in case I need diamonds.

I love jewelry - gold and diamonds. I'm a woman.

Money can't buy me love.

Women prefer emotions to reasoning.

Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.

Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.

He never wanted love, though. You cannot eat love, nor buy a horse with it, nor warm your halls on a cold night.

But what's the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.

Love is about needing someone, about feeling as if the day isn't quite right if they're not there. Its about knowing that, no matter how bad a day you've had, the moment you see them again or hear their voice, the world is back in its place.

Love? I need a lot of love." Of course you do. Everyone does. It's funny that we never say it. It's OK to scream, 'I'm starving' in public if you are hungry; it's OK to make a fuss and say, 'I'm so sleepy', if you are tired; but somehow we cannot say, 'I need some more love.' Why can't we say it? It's just as basic a need." - ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 36 pages 293-4

Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.