I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.

Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

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

Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.

Strength is built by one's failures, not by one's successes.