Home / Quotes / Quote by Cary Grant

Quote by Cary Grant

“I can't bear to hear a woman talk baby talk.”

Quote by Cary Grant

Author

Cary Grant, born Archibald Alexander Leach, was an English-born American film actor. He was renowned in the film industry from the 1930s to the 1960s for his elegant demeanor and unique sense of humor. Grant portrayed numerous classic roles in the golden age of Hollywood and became an icon for a generation. more

You May Also Like

“A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.”

Ifs Men Should Looks Facts Girl Easier Female Convince Fascinating Disguise

Author:Pat Boone

“I'm glad they gave women the right to vote, but sometimes I'm sorry they have the right to smoke. Most women are messy about it, particularly about their lipstick. I don't mind wiping lipstick off myself, but I hate seeing it on cigarettes, napkins and coffee cups! I don't like women with all their beauty machinery showing-curlers, cold cream, mascara brushes. I'd even prefer to not see a woman touch up her lipstick, but I guess that's expecting too much.”

“If she replaces her eyebrows with a Machiavellian triangle, paints her fingernails blue, and dyes her hair some color you'd see in a comic book it's not too attractive to me-because it's too familiar. Extremes aren't necessary. Even 'high fashion' frightens most men. When I have to wait in the dentist's office, I sometimes look at fashion magazines. To me, most of the models look like they have rickets or scoliosis of the spine. They look less like woman than caricatures.”

“The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.”

Purpose Ignorance Average Bugs Cosmetics Supplements

Author:Montgomery Clift

“I hate imitation jewelry, dark lipstick and most of all a shrill voice. This has spoiled many a picture of feminine loveliness.”

Hate Voice Dark I Hate Feminine Imitation Jewelry Spoiled Lipstick Loveliness

Author:Ray Milland

“Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.”

Ifs Looks Beautiful Faces Empty Mask Artificial Vacuums Eyelashes Beautiful Face Vacuous Empty Heads

Author:Peter Ustinov

“Some woman are more interested in what they look like than what they are. If they more interested in what they are, they would look better.”

Author:Danny Kaye

“Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.”

Important Age Simple Quality Modern Losing Important Things Great Men Femininity Jeopardy Modern Age

Author:Yul Brynner

“The sweet smell of success is no perfume for a woman. Say it's old-fashioned, say it's corny, but, as far as I can see, a girl who wears a 'business scent' is not attractive. A woman who flaunts her career as if it was a new hat is not beautiful.”

Ifs I Can Beautiful Girl Careers Sweet Smell Attractive Hats Scent Old Fashioned Perfume Corny

Author:Rod Taylor

“Women are beginning to lose their identity. They have jumped with teeth clenched, fists braced and eyes aglow, into the competitive man's world. They're losing the vibrant quality of femininity, the aura of mystery.”

Men World Eye Loses Quality Mystery Identity Losing Teeth Femininity Fists Auras

Author:Tony Curtis