Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman." All too often I forgot that.

He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.

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.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.