I leave before being left. I decide.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Love, Marriage
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous, and very unhappy.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Appearance, Unhappiness
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Women, Feminism, Unhappiness
Men are beasts and even beasts don’t behave as they do.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Men
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Maturity
It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Faithfulness, Marriage
On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Reality, Opportunities
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
—Brigitte Bardot
Topics: Tourism, Travel
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
Topics: Death, Dying
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