Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!

Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

I adore artifice. I always have.

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.