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Love Quote by Eva Gabor

"If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever"

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Gabor’s line lands like a champagne-bubbly warning shot: flirtatious on the surface, quietly bruised underneath. Coming from an actress whose public persona traded in glamour and romantic comedy sheen, it’s a remarkably unsentimental take on fidelity. The joke is in the allowance: “Maybe for a few days.” That little concession admits desire as weather, not a moral referendum. People wander. Temptation happens. What matters, she suggests, is not spotless behavior but the underlying anchor of commitment.

The subtext is sharper than the wording lets on. By framing “the most beautiful woman in the world” as powerless against “truly” being in love, Gabor isn’t praising men so much as establishing a test that filters out excuses. If he leaves, it wasn’t irresistible beauty; it was insufficient love. That’s both comforting and cold. Comforting because it restores agency: betrayal isn’t fate, it’s choice. Cold because it implies there’s no real mystery to being discarded; the verdict is simple and personal.

Culturally, it fits a mid-century celebrity ecosystem where romance was marketed as destiny while divorce was increasingly visible. Gabor herself, famously married multiple times, speaks with the authority of someone who’s seen the machinery up close: attraction is easy, permanence is rare. The line works because it refuses melodrama. It’s not “no one would ever cheat” fantasy. It’s a wry, adult recalibration: lust can rent a room, but love owns the house.

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Gabor, Eva. (n.d.). If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-a-man-is-truly-in-love-the-most-beautiful-145992/

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Gabor, Eva. "If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-a-man-is-truly-in-love-the-most-beautiful-145992/.

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"If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-a-man-is-truly-in-love-the-most-beautiful-145992/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Eva Gabor (February 11, 1921 - July 4, 1995) was a Actress from Hungary.

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