Top 36 Ranevskaya Quotes

#1. I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #72038
#2. Women critics are amazons in climax.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #119753
#3. It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #218438
#4. All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #301941
#5. On should life his life in such a way that even bastards remember him.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #336309
#6. Beauty is a horrible power.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #342082
#7. My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #393620
#8. A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #437316
#9. Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #501926
#10. A real man is one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #552098
#11. You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart
your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born.

Anne Lamott

Ranevskaya Quotes #660986
#12. The number one rule of our training is empathy before education.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Ranevskaya Quotes #676457
#13. If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #682758
#14. The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ranevskaya Quotes #696231
#15. Optimism is lack of information.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #830051
#16. It's not a face, but a personal insult.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #885356
#17. If a woman walks with her head down - she has a lover! If a woman walks with her head proudly up - she has a lover! If a woman carries her head straight - she has a lover! And actually, if a woman has a head, she has a
lover!

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #939056
#18. It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #965246
#19. I had enough brain to live a stupid life.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #988421
#20. You cannot cure sclerosis, but you can forget it.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #1079965
#21. Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #1131793
#22. It's one thing to think you're worthless, and quite another for somebody else to tell you that you are.

Jennifer Echols

Ranevskaya Quotes #1186165
#23. I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.

John Steinbeck

Ranevskaya Quotes #1186787
#24. The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

Horace Greeley

Ranevskaya Quotes #1232161
#25. Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #1274042
#26. Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #1313472
#27. God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #1329477
#28. Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #1361173
#29. When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #1439697
#30. Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide ... And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #1467843
#31. She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most important, what, in that confused mass of experience and yearning she heard in my voice, she could single out to give back.

Alice Sebold

Ranevskaya Quotes #1622742
#32. Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #1637295
#33. Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species.

Hendrik Poinar

Ranevskaya Quotes #1787749
#34. Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #1831781
#35. Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.

Faina Ranevskaya

Ranevskaya Quotes #1852675
#36. Health is when it hurts in a new place every day.

Faina Ranevskaya

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