I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

Pink is the navy blue of India.

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.

I loathe narcissism but I approve of vanity.

The only real elegance is in the mind If youve got that the rest really comes from it.

Its not about the dress you wear but its about the life you lead in the dress.

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

Red is the great clarifier bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.