It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.

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

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

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

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.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.