Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

Laugh a little when the joke's on you — Helen Gurley Brown

If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else. — Helen Gurley Brown

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want. — Helen Gurley Brown

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard. — Helen Gurley Brown

Money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort — Helen Gurley Brown

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power. — Helen Gurley Brown

At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her. — John Searles

You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge. — Helen Gurley Brown

Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are. — Helen Gurley Brown

When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do. — Helen Gurley Brown

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself. — Helen Gurley Brown

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off! — Helen Gurley Brown

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up. — Helen Gurley Brown

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators. — Helen Gurley Brown

Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne. — Helen Gurley Brown

There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches. — Helen Gurley Brown

I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously. — Helen Gurley Brown

You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there. — Helen Gurley Brown

The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be, — Helen Gurley Brown

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody. — Helen Gurley Brown

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep. — Helen Gurley Brown

If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay. — Helen Gurley Brown

Talkers expand like bread dough. — Helen Gurley Brown

Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at. — Helen Gurley Brown

Good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere — Helen Gurley Brown

A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She's a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself. — Helen Gurley Brown

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. — Helen Gurley Brown

My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people. — Helen Gurley Brown

The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to. — Helen Gurley Brown

Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks. — Helen Gurley Brown

I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety. — Helen Gurley Brown

If you're not a sex object, you're in trouble. — Helen Gurley Brown

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with. — Helen Gurley Brown

People never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls. — Helen Gurley Brown

If you're not a sex symbol, you're in trouble. — Helen Gurley Brown

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents. — Helen Gurley Brown

The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously. — Helen Gurley Brown

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. — Helen Gurley Brown

Sex is one of the three best things out there, and I don't even know what the other two are. — Helen Gurley Brown

Never throw anything good away
real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back. — Helen Gurley Brown

Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it! — Helen Gurley Brown

Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better. — Helen Gurley Brown

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator. — Helen Gurley Brown

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money. — Helen Gurley Brown

I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her. — Helen Gurley Brown

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown