Diana Vreeland Quotes - Page 2

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

The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.

I think when you’re young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together.

The personality is a work of art.

I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.

Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

People who eat white bread have no dreams.

I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.

Too much good taste can be boring

I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.

One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it; it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming...

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.

Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.

Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.

Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.

Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.

You gotta have style to get up in the morning

I adore artifice. I always have.

To be contented—that’s for the cows.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

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