Top 23 Quotes About Elsa Schiaparelli: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Elsa Schiaparelli

#1. Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

#2. When she returned to her cabin, Dr.Gabriel was already there examining Sterling's back. Sterling lay on his stomach, on her bunk, his eyes closed. She wondered if he was sleeping. She doubted it. He was probably unconscious. Or perhaps he'd closed his eyes in order to hide what he was feeling.

Jade Parker

#3. I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink.

Elsa Schiaparelli

#4. Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

Laurence Housman

#5. In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.

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#6. Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.

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#7. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

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#8. One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

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#9. Belief is as necessary to the soul as pleasures are necessary to the body.

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#10. Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

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#11. Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.

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#12. Remember, 20 percent of women have inferiority complexes, 70 percent have illusions.

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#13. Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

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#14. In order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent.

Anne Lamott

#15. It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss.

Robert Breault

#16. A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn, and as soon as this happens another personality takes over from you and animates it, or tries to, glorifies or destroys it, or makes it into a song of beauty.

Elsa Schiaparelli