Diana Vreeland

Pink is the navy blue of India.

— Diana Vreeland

Water is God’s tranquilizer,

— Diana Vreeland

Exaggeration is my only reality.

— Diana Vreeland

No one knows how hard one works.

— Diana Vreeland

The personality is a work of art.

— Diana Vreeland

“What sells is hope.”

— Diana Vreeland

I adore artifice. I always have.

— Diana Vreeland

“I adore fringe.”

— Diana Vreeland

Every girl in the world should have geisha training

— Diana Vreeland

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

— Diana Vreeland

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

— Diana Vreeland

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

— Diana Vreeland

If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it,

— Diana Vreeland

Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!

— Diana Vreeland

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity,

— Diana Vreeland

Where would fashion be without literature?

— Diana Vreeland

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

— Diana Vreeland

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come…

— Diana Vreeland

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

— Diana Vreeland

Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.

— Diana Vreeland

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

— Diana Vreeland

I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.

— Diana Vreeland

God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no diamonds. He gave them style.

— Diana Vreeland

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

— Diana Vreeland

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming…

— Diana Vreeland

The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that…

— Diana Vreeland

All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful…

— Diana Vreeland

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

— 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…

— Diana Vreeland

I think when you’re young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where…

— Diana Vreeland

When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object…

— Diana Vreeland

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One…

— Diana Vreeland

I don't think anybody has been in a better place at a better time than I was when I was editor of…

— Diana Vreeland

I think part of my success as an editor came from never worrying about a fact, a cause, an atmosphere. It was…

— Diana Vreeland

Don't you loathe the word "workaholic"? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at…

— Diana Vreeland

“<"To bewitch" is to me always slightly artificial as it is always put on -- whereas witchery is a form of naturalness that some people can't help, and the world judges that they don't create it ...> November 15 1967 memo to Mrs. Loew Gross re "THE ROMANTIC POINT OF VIEW”

— Diana Vreeland

I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing.…

— Diana Vreeland

A good photograph was never what I was looking for. I like to have a point. I had to have a point…

— Diana Vreeland

God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing!…

— Diana Vreeland

I was always fascinated by the absurdities and luxuries and the snobbism of the world that fashion magazines showed. Of course, it’s…

— Diana Vreeland