Diana Vreeland Quotes - Page 5

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.

If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.

There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!

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

It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.

No one knows how hard one works.

Water is God's tranquilizer.

If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.

I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s not for everyone...But I lived in that world, not only during my years in the magazines business but for years before, because I was always of that world-- at least in my imagination.

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.

I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.

The only thing people are interested in is people.

Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

I don't think anyone has ever been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of Vogue. Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later. Like all great times, the sixties were about personalities.

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

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

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

The hottest thing in the world is to wear pants with stockings.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.