Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn. "

Hugh Hefner

You

Information

Learn

" I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart. "

" My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home. "

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

" I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever. "

" The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there. "

" Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole. "

Hugh Hefner

Thinking

Past

" The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols. "

Hugh Hefner

Growing Up

Impact

" In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process. "

" 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. "

" I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on. "

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

" It is women who have traditionally, historically been given non-human roles, perceived as simply the daughters of Eve, perceived as either Madonna or whore. And I think that it is the sexual revolution that plays one part in female emancipation. "

" 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. "

" I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes. "

" What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine. "

" Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did. "

" My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds. "

" There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society. "

Hugh Hefner

Writing

Society

" Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.' "

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

" Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so. "

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

" Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. "

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

" With the rabbit as our emblem, when we got to the point in 1960 of opening the first Playboy Club... one of our executives suggested the possibility of a bunny costume. We tried it out, and I made some modifications - added the cuffs and the bow tie and collar - and the bunny was born. "

" I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde. "

" I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. "

" Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms. "

" Part of the concept behind the magazine was breaking barriers. And it wasn't just a sexual thing. It was racial and doing the things that were right. And in the process, that set 'Playboy' apart. "