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.

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 it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.