It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

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.

When putting on accessories, take off the last thing you've put on.

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.

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

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!