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> [It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/it-is-intolerable-that-it-should-be-in-the-power-of-one-blockhead-to/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

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## More by Charles James

> [True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/true-humanity-consists-not-in-a-squeamish-ear-it-consists-not-in/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/cut-in-dressmaking-is-like-grammar-in-language-a-good-design-should/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [Forget all you know & learn something every day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/forget-all-you-know-learn-something-every-day/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/there-are-not-many-original-shapes-or-silhouettes-only-a-million/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/brancusi-has-his-medium-picasso-faulkner-shostakovich-theirs-mine/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/all-creative-work-begins-by-doing-something-with-the-hands-creation/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/fashion-after-all-is-magic-and-miracle-intended-to-bestow-proportion/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/in-fashion-even-what-seems-most-fragile-must-be-built-on-cement/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/it-is-intolerable-that-it-should-be-in-the-power-of-one-blockhead-to/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [I spent my life making fashion an art form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/i-spent-my-life-making-fashion-an-art-form/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/all-my-seams-have-meaning-they-emphasize-something-about-the-body/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [Marriage: The most expensive way to get your laundry done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/marriage-the-most-expensive-way-to-get-your-laundry-done/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/a-great-designer-does-not-seek-acceptance-he-challenges-popularity/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [My dresses help women discover figures they didn’t know they had,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/my-dresses-help-women-discover-figures-they-didn-t-know-they-had/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

> [I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-james/i-recognize-that-virtually-every-company-that-comes-in-here-has-a/)

[Charles James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-james/)

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