It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body.

The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.

The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.