Helena Rubinstein Quotations

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

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small seed of information passed from one generation to another may generate a new science, a new industry-a seed which neither the giver nor the receiver can truly evaluate at the time.