A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

[Balenciaga] did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

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