Quotes from Diana Vreeland

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.

Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

I'm a person who is only invested in the pleasures and enjoyments of life. All the rest is left to the men. I've always remained what you might call "feminine" about the whole [work] thing.

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

Without emotion there is no beauty

Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.

The best thing about London is Paris.

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

Exaggeration is my only reality.

Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.