196 Quotes by Diana Vreeland

I wasn’t a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.

Why don’t you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?

I’ve always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven’t put on the pressure. But I never took them.

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

Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

Chutney is marvelous. I’m mad about it. To me, it’s very imperial.

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.

I’m for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one’s not a joiner. To hell with all of them!

If it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.