--- title: "1 Overestimated Quotes By Mary Quant" description: "1 Overestimated quotes by Mary Quant. Plus more from Mary Quant and more Overestimated sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44c/mary-quant-9697_failure_being-young-is-greatly-overestimated-any_3110829.png" --- > [Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/being-young-is-greatly-overestimated-any-failure-seems-so-total-later/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44c/mary-quant-9697_failure_being-young-is-greatly-overestimated-any_3110829.png) ## More by Mary Quant > [I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/i-can-t-imagine-not-working-really-i-just-think-work-s-more-fun-than/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/coco-chanel-hated-me-i-can-understand-why/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/as-the-daughter-of-two-teachers-with-first-class-degrees-i-d-always/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/i-ve-always-loved-painting-and-drawing-i-wish-i-d-developed-it-more/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [I think to myself, 'You lucky woman - how did you have all this fun?'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/i-think-to-myself-you-lucky-woman-how-did-you-have-all-this-fun/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/the-gods-gave-man-fire-and-he-invented-fire-engines-they-gave-him/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/i-liked-my-skirts-short-because-i-wanted-to-run-and-catch-the-bus-to/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/i-always-designed-clothes-from-a-very-young-age-because-i-didn-t-like/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/one-day-a-new-fabric-appeared-on-the-scene-pvc-was-shiny-waterproof/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/i-saw-no-reason-why-childhood-shouldn-t-last-forever-so-i-created/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/i-used-to-start-re-arranging-my-school-uniform-hitching-up-my-skirt/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [I have been on a diet since 1962.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/i-have-been-on-a-diet-since-1962/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/most-of-my-memories-of-the-sixties-are-ones-of-optimism-high-spirits/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/people-only-see-permissiveness-in-the-sense-of-having-more/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) > [The whole 1960s thing was a ten-year running party, which was lovely. It started at the end of the 1950s and sort of faded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-quant/the-whole-1960s-thing-was-a-ten-year-running-party-which-was-lovely/) [Mary Quant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-quant/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/overestimated/mary-quant/#itemlist", "name": "1 Overestimated Quotes By Mary Quant", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. 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