The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.

My dream is to save women from nature.

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail.

A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone.

Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace.

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream, and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives us.

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.

The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.

We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.

White is pure and simple and matches with everything.

Without foundations, there can be no fashion.

Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.

You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example.

You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe.

A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.

In a machine age dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human the personal the inimitable.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.

After women flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

The tones of gray pale turquoise and pink will prevail.

Happiness is the secret to all beauty there is no beauty that is attractive without happiness.

High heels Painful pleasure.

Real elegance is everywhere – especially in the things that don’t show.

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.