Hugh Hefner Quotes

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Hugh Hefner

Profession : Publisher

Birth : April 9, 1926

I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I had somehow managed to miss. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble.

Hugh Hefner

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.

Hugh Hefner

You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

Hugh Hefner

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

Hugh Hefner

I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably.

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The business end of business has never interested me.

Hugh Hefner

To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces... that's a life well-spent.

Hugh Hefner

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

Hugh Hefner

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.

Hugh Hefner

I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss.

Hugh Hefner

I think everyone should get married. I just took a little longer than usual.

Hugh Hefner

Even when I was young, I said age is largely a state of mind if you're healthy.

Hugh Hefner

It's hard to really compare new love and old love.

Hugh Hefner

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

Hugh Hefner

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

Hugh Hefner

I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.

Hugh Hefner

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

Hugh Hefner

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

Hugh Hefner

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

Hugh Hefner

I am in very good health. I've never felt better.

Hugh Hefner