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

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.

Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.

Fashion is in the sky, in the street.