Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

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.

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.

As I now feel, I would wish to be borne off anywhere out of this world.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.