Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

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.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity