Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

I don't try to be sexy, but if you are sexy it comes out. If you're not, you're not.

You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself.

Elegance is not an outer quality, but a part of the soul that is visible to others.

Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on

I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.

Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality.

There is nothing better than an attractive woman who doesn't act attractive.

I'm learning that you can be comfortable and still look beautiful.

I don't like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around.

Everyone's looking for who's hot. What about looking for who's good?

To radiate any quality, that quality must be within yourself.

Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book.

My mother was so beautiful, she really was a a wonderful person. Always walking like a queen. Like she owned the world. Maybe I took something from her.

Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.

Grace is a feminine quality.

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.

What makes all those women sexy? Were they just born sexy? I guess it's the way they act. I don't want to have to act sexy. I just want to be me, and if I don't happen to be sexy, oh well. That's OK. I don't want to force something I'm not.

The most attractive quality of all is dignity.

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn't how old you are, how young you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your skirt is. What it is, is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game.

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

I don't think about being sexy, being seductive. What you don't want to see is somebody trying to be sexy. That's the most unsexy thing.