“The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.” 

“Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it

“Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness – or so good as drink.”

“When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.” 

“A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.”

“Charity means pardoning the unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.”

“There are people who have money and people who are rich.”

“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.”

 “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

“All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.”

“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”

“I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little—if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”

“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

“Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”

“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"

"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."

"I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not."

"If you’re sad, add more lipstick and attack."

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you. 

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

 Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. 

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men. 

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

“The best things in life are free. The second-best are very expensive.”

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”

"My life didn’t please me, so I created my life."

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time

 A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life. 

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.