Author Profile
Hugh Hefner
1926 – 2017 • American • Publisher
61
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 61 quotesI have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.— Hugh Hefner
I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't 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
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
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
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
Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.— Hugh Hefner
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.— Hugh Hefner
When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.— Hugh Hefner
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