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"My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself."
"I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across."
"It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them."
"It's always better to be underdressed."
"I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris."
"What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel."
"Material things aside, we need not advice but approval."
"I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it."
"In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind."
"I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life."
"I have only one curiosity left: death."
"As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly."
"If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself."
"For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions."
"If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else."
"A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period"
"Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!"
"Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays."
"Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never."
"After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda."