1.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot
I bestowed my youthful radiance and vigor upon the opposite sex. I shall now bestow my knowledge and maturity upon creatures of the wild.
2.
Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals are made of flesh and blood like us, that they suffer the same pains as us, that they deserve the same respect as us and that their continuous slaughter should not be part of human entertainment.
Brigitte Bardot
3.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
Brigitte Bardot
4.
Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.
Brigitte Bardot
5.
When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.
Brigitte Bardot
6.
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot
7.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Brigitte Bardot
8.
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot
9.
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.
Brigitte Bardot
10.
If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't, I'll stick to animals.
Brigitte Bardot
11.
I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.
Brigitte Bardot
12.
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
Brigitte Bardot
13.
They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.
Brigitte Bardot
14.
When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.
Brigitte Bardot
15.
I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.
Brigitte Bardot
16.
It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.
Brigitte Bardot
17.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
18.
If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
Brigitte Bardot
19.
I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.
Death was like love, a romantic escape.
I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony
and know people would photograph me lying dead below
Brigitte Bardot
20.
I have found out that friendship is quite as important as love and it isn't any easier than love.
Brigitte Bardot
21.
My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.
Brigitte Bardot
22.
I really am a cat transformed into a woman.
Brigitte Bardot
23.
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
Brigitte Bardot
24.
There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?
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25.
Was it me that Botticelli imagined?
Brigitte Bardot
26.
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
Brigitte Bardot
27.
I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.
Brigitte Bardot
28.
My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
Brigitte Bardot
29.
I leave before being left. I decide.
Brigitte Bardot
30.
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
Brigitte Bardot
31.
I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.
Brigitte Bardot
32.
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
Brigitte Bardot
33.
I don't think when I make love.
Brigitte Bardot
34.
I think animals help us live; they've helped me live. It was only when I began to devote myself to protecting animals that I blossomed completely. Taking care of them, looking out for them, has given my life true meaning, a meaning I hope future generations can experience.
Brigitte Bardot
35.
The world today doesn't please me.
Brigitte Bardot
36.
I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
Brigitte Bardot
37.
Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.
Brigitte Bardot
38.
It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.
Brigitte Bardot
39.
I wanted to be myself. Only myself.
Brigitte Bardot
40.
James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.
Brigitte Bardot
41.
I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have been worth nothing.
Brigitte Bardot
42.
What does it mean, being a woman?
Brigitte Bardot
43.
Champagne is the one thing that gives me zest when I am tired.
Brigitte Bardot
44.
Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.
Brigitte Bardot
45.
Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
Brigitte Bardot
46.
Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer.
Brigitte Bardot
47.
My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
Brigitte Bardot
48.
You can be barefoot and have worries.
Brigitte Bardot
49.
I say what I think and I think what I say.
Brigitte Bardot
50.
I do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine.
Brigitte Bardot
