Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.

Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.

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.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

Elegance is refusal.