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

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.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don't mind her anymore. She's okay. We've become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.