Edith Head Quotes

My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears - I appreciate the details.

'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.

I am from the planet of elegance.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

I look at my grandmother, and she has this grace and class about her. When she walks into a room and sits down and talks to someone. Everything she does in life. I feel that women of her generation were really taught that.

Being a 'Lady' used to be something to which all young women aspired.

When I worked with Keira Knightley in 'Never Let Me Go,' I learned how to be classy and sophisticated.

Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.

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

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.