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

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

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

My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had.

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

Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.