Helena Rubinstein Quotes

#1. And his was so beautiful.

Kiera Cass

#2. All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

Helena Rubinstein

#3. As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good - I use it because I have to, but I don't put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

Marcel Duchamp

#4. Adjust your makeup to the light in which your wear it.

Helena Rubinstein

#5. There are no ugly women, only lazy ones

Helena Rubinstein

#6. All the Saints of God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your faith and your hope accompany me.

Pope Benedict XVI

#7. Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

Helena Rubinstein

#8. I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity.

Helena Rubinstein

#9. if the gospels had been identical to each other, word for word, this would have raised charges that the authors had conspired among themselves to coordinate their stories in advance, and that would have cast doubt on them.

Lee Strobel

#10. Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer.

Mitchell Baker

#11. Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

Helena Rubinstein

#12. The best antidote to worry, I have always believed, is work and more work ...

Helena Rubinstein

#13. I am more than ever convinced that what we eat today is what we are tomorrow.

Helena Rubinstein

#14. In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

William S. Burroughs

#15. I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.

Jenny Slate

#16. Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

Helena Rubinstein

#17. Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

Helena Rubinstein

#18. I'm a TV junkie, so it's hard to choose just one. Currently I'm a slave to 'Black Sails,' 'Vikings,' 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Mindy Project.'

Victoria Aveyard

#19. Don't do it for the sake of doing it, but don't wait for a fantasy either.

David Levithan

#20. I can't help from making money, that is all.

Helena Rubinstein

#21. It doesn't matter how shaky a woman's hand is. She can still apply makeup.

Helena Rubinstein

#22. Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

Peter Ustinov

#23. Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.

Helena Rubinstein

#24. Listen! Say less rather than more. If you want to be smart, play stupid!

Helena Rubinstein

#25. When I was a kid, I collected cactuses. I had hundreds of different kinds in my room. I was a weird child. Everyone was playing football, and I was collecting cactuses. I spent all my money on them. I had so many colors and shapes. I even gave them names.

Stjepan Hauser

#26. I have never had my face lifted. I prefer to have my spirits lifted. In my opinion, the effect is very nearly the same.

Helena Rubinstein

#27. Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.

Jentezen Franklin

#28. Am I the same cold, ragged damp Sara? And to think I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were fairies! The one thing I always wanted was to see a fairy story come true. I am living in a fairy story. I feel as if I might be a fairy myself, and able to turn things into anything else.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#29. There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person
it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life ... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

Ivan Turgenev

#30. I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

Helena Rubinstein

#31. Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

Linus Torvalds