In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
People are so codified – it’s sad.
I am 1952. I masticate. I am like a big stomach.
I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
I was fascinated by movies from age 12.
I was lucky to have parents who loved me.
If it’s too fashiony, it’s not interesting to me.
My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market.
People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.
My best experiences with movies have come when I didn’t know what to see.
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.