Faina Ranevskaya

All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.

— Faina Ranevskaya

You cannot cure sclerosis, but you can forget it.

— Faina Ranevskaya

It has always been incomprehensible for me: people are ashamed of the poverty but aren't ashamed of the wealth.

— Faina Ranevskaya

Optimism is lack of information.

— Faina Ranevskaya

God created women beautiful - so that men can love them - and stupid - so that they can love men.

— Faina Ranevskaya

Like all people in love, I was obnoxious and stupid, threatened suicide...And the one I was supposed to make worry only giggled.

— Faina Ranevskaya

When you get married, you'll understand what happiness is. But then it will be too late.

— Faina Ranevskaya

Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.

— Faina Ranevskaya

“Everybody complain about their appearance and nobody about their brains.”

— Faina Ranevskaya

Beauty is a horrible power.

— Faina Ranevskaya

Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man…

— Faina Ranevskaya

On should life his life in such a way that even bastards remember him.

— Faina Ranevskaya

I had enough brain to live a stupid life.

— Faina Ranevskaya

I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.

— Faina Ranevskaya

Women critics are amazons in climax.

— Faina Ranevskaya

A real man is one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers…

— Faina Ranevskaya

If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent.

— Faina Ranevskaya

It's not a face, but a personal insult.

— Faina Ranevskaya

If a woman walks with her head down - she has a lover! If a woman walks with her head proudly up…

— Faina Ranevskaya

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

— Faina Ranevskaya

Aging is tedious, but it is the only way to live long.

— Faina Ranevskaya

Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.

— Faina Ranevskaya

Health is when it hurts in a new place every day.

— Faina Ranevskaya

My fortune is in the fact that I don't need it.

— Faina Ranevskaya

A fairytale is when you marry a frog and it turns out to be a princess. Reality is vice versa.

— Faina Ranevskaya