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.

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Before me no one would have dared dress in black

Passion always goes, and boredom stays.

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.