Top 36 Ranevskaya Quotes
#3. It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.
Faina Ranevskaya
#5. On should life his life in such a way that even bastards remember him.
Faina Ranevskaya
#8. A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.
Faina Ranevskaya
#9. Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.
Faina Ranevskaya
#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
#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
#14. The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#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
#18. It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.
Faina Ranevskaya
#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
#22. It's one thing to think you're worthless, and quite another for somebody else to tell you that you are.
Jennifer Echols
#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
#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
#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
#26. Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.
Faina Ranevskaya
#27. God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.
Faina Ranevskaya
#28. Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.
Faina Ranevskaya
#29. When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.
Faina Ranevskaya
#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
#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
#32. Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.
Faina Ranevskaya
#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
#34. Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.
Faina Ranevskaya
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