I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.

If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.