Elizabeth Arden Quotes

101 Elizabeth Arden Quotes

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It was the beginning of my real life, my coming of age...
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I vowed myself then and there to nature…
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I… have been happy ever since.
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Every skin requires an astringent tonic and a nourishing cream.
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Keep it exquisitely clean.
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Learn not to over-massage…
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No one method of treatment sets the same with all persons…
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Quest of the beautiful.
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This business is… essentially feminine. What male executive will throw away a whole batch of powder, because the shade’s off an indiscernible fraction? Or spend weeks mixing nail polish to get the right color – the one women will adore? I’ve been doing it every day of my life.
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Everybody copies me.
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I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel.
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Hold fast to life and youth.
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Nothing that costs only a dollar is worth having.
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Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers.
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[In 1937] The great days of the salons are over. [‘The temporary’ beauty business had won.]
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I don’t want them [staff] to love me, I want them to fear me.
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[On the 1929 Wall Street Crash] Our clients are coping with the stress of financial loss by soaking in a hot bath scented with my Rose Geranium bath crystals.
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I found I didn’t really like looking at sick people. I want to keep people well, and young, and beautiful.
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[In 1959 when she was told one of her racehorses had bitten off the tip of a person’s finger] What happened to the horse?
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[On passing by a limestone façade bearing the words ‘Helena Rubinstein’ after she had passed three weeks earlier at the age of 94] Poor Helena. [Elizabeth herself passed away just 18 months later at the age of 81]
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When people think pink… they think Arden.
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[At a political fundraiser towards the end of the 1930s] You don’t have to do anything, my dears – just vote Republican.
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Hanque, I’m tired of Miss What’s-her-name’s copy. I think you ought to fire her and get someone else. [He would murmur agreement and do nothing and then when he next presented ‘Miss What’s-her-names copy] I like these words much better. [And then a few months later] You know, Hanque, I think I preferred Miss What’s-her-name’s copy. Perhaps you’d better hire her back. [This went on for years and no one ever dared tell her the truth.]
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[She had] Given her life to the study of her subject in America [In response to Helena Rubinstein text saying she had ‘Given her life to the study of her subject in America.’]
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Only eat fruit in the morning and steer clear of all full-fat dairy products, including cream.
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[During the depression] Women are cheered by makeup. When the moneyed spend less on clothes, they spend more on lipstick.
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Do you want your make-up to stay on for hours and hours?
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Do you want something that will help keep a blemish out of sight?
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Do you want your skin to glow through your powder?
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Do you want to help hide your freckles?
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You’re in another world… when you come through the red door of Elizabeth Arden. And the world is based on one exclusive object – you. Whatever your need or the time you have on your hands.
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[To her skeptical father] I am going to make us rich just as soon as I perfect my beauty cream.
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Before you start off anything, why don’t you start of with a clean slate.
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[In 1932] The Pre-war and Victorian styles have distinctly pre-war and Victorian postures.
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[On women having pre-war and Victorian postures in 1932] Unfortunately many women today still have these same old fashioned postures. By the stretching of certain muscles and flexing of certain muscles your posture can be made perfect.
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Beautiful gives her daughter something to look forward to.
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Beautiful stands the test of time.
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Beautiful is knowing you are one of a kind.
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Beautiful never looks back.
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Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
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