In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

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