Quotes by Brigitte Bardot

“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.”

“Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”

“What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.”

“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”

“I have to live with both my selves as best I may.”

“Only idiots refuse to change their minds.”

“I have the courage of my convictions.”

“Death was like love, a romantic escape.”

“We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?”

“I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.”

“I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.”

“Do you have to have a reason for loving?”

“I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.”

“Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?”

“I am no mother, and I won't be one.”

“I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.”

“They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.”

“Politics disgusts me.”

“Films have never shown the kind of relationship that can exist between two women.”

“Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.”

“Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.”

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