Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.

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.

What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.