"Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer."

"A newspaper reported that I spent $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear."

"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."

"He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It had to be some silly little Communist."

"A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane."

"I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives."

"There are two kind of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed."

"I have been through life and suffered a great deal, but I have had happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good and the bad, and perhaps there is no need to do so."

"Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death."

"I won't barter myself."

"The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse."

"I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter.  But after college ... I did other things."

"There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all."

"I want to live my life, not record it."

"Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes."

"When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it."

"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"

"The only routine with me is no routine at all."

"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."

"The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship."

 

Hubert de Givenchy