Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.

Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young

True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.

Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!