Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

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

If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.

I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.

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.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.