1. “It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me unless he’s terribly strong.”
2. “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.”
3. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
4. “You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
5. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”
6. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
7. “No one is young after forty, but one can be irresistible at any age.”
8. “Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.”
9. “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
10. “Jump out the window if you are the object of passion.”
11. “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
12. “Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
13. “I imposed black; it is still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around.”
14. “Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”
15. “Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.”
16. “To achieve great things, we must first dream.”
17. “If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack. Men hate women who weep.”
18. “One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.”
19. “Only those with no memory insist on their originality.”
20. “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
21. “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.”
22. “The right ingredients can create a legend.”
23. “A woman who cuts is about to change her life.”
24. “Never a button without a buttonhole.”
25. “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
26. “A woman can be overdressed but never over elegant.”
27. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”
28. “Nothing makes a woman look older than obvious expensiveness, ornateness, and complication.”
29. “I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.”
30. “We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a , caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.”
31. “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
32. “Keep your heels, head, and standards high.”
33. “Be classy. Anything but trashy.”
34. “There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
35. “You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
36. “When I find a colour darker than black, I’ll wear it. But until then, I’m wearing black.”
37. “Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.”
38. “The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.”
39. “Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm.”
40. “A girl should be two things—who and what she wants.”
41. “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the , in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.”
42. “Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.”
43. “I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman. I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love.”
44. “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
45. “Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
46. “For a woman, betrayal has no sense. One cannot one’s passions.”
47. “The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the who held them as infants.”
48. “I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little—if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”
49. “Adornment—what a science! Beauty—what a weapon! Modesty—what elegance!”
50. “Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.”
51. “A woman with good shoes is never ugly.”
52. “Fashion changes, but style endures.”
53. “A girl should be two things—classy and fabulous.”
54. “Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautiful.”
55. “Fashion has two purposes—comfort and love.”
56. “Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
57. “Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.”
58. “A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.”
59. “A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.”
60. “No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost. Unloved, she might as well die.”
61. “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
62. “Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.”
63. “A woman has the age she deserves.”
64. “I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.”
65. “There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself, but it destroys a woman.”66. “There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.”
67. “I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”
68. “Don’t be like the rest of them, darling.”
69. “There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly.”
70. “Women have always been the strong ones of the world.”
71. “A woman’s education consists of two lessons—never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.”
72. “Great loves, too, must be endured.”
73. “Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language.”
74. “Elegance is refusal.”
75. “The best accessory for a woman—a handsome man.”
76. “Fashion is architecture—it is a matter of proportions.”
77. “I only drink champagne on two occasions—when I am in love and when I am not.”
78. “The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
79. “Care about your heart and soul first.”
80. “My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”
81. “Passion goes, boredom remains.”
82. “Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”
83. “I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
84. “As long as you know men are like children, you know everything.”
85. “Luxury must be comfortable. Otherwise, it is not luxury.”
86. “Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.”
87. “Coquetry—it’s a triumph of the spirit over the senses.”
88. “The more stupid and unlucky man is, the more claims he makes to the woman.”
