I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time

I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.

I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event.

I can't tell people how to have style. No amount of money can buy you style. It's just instinctive.

I think you're born with style, but you have to develop it. You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

Caviar used to be my drug of choice, but since my husband is on a no-salt diet, I've kind of given it up. I still have dreams of sitting down and gorging, though. I love it with a good vodka; I don't like it with champagne.

I’m a great believer in common sense, and the older I get I see that common sense is not that common