A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

You can see and feel everything in clothes.