Quote

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

Diana Vreeland

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Diana Vreeland
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: July 29
Died: 1989
Died: August 2
Editor
Fashion Editor
Journalist
Socialite
Paris
France
D. V. Vreeland
Diana Vreland
Fragrances
Fragrance
Fill
Mysterious
Senses

More quotes by Diana Vreeland

Image
Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.
Diana Vreeland
Image
The best time to leave a party is when the party’s just beginning. There’s no drink that kills except the drink that you didn’t want to take, as the saying goes, and there’s no hour that kills except the hour you stayed after you wanted to go home.
Diana Vreeland
Image
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
Diana Vreeland
Image
I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. Give'em what they never knew they wanted.
Diana Vreeland
Image
The personality is a work of art.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
Diana Vreeland
Image
I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Where would fashion be without literature?
Diana Vreeland
Image
This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.
Diana Vreeland
Image
It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.
Diana Vreeland
Image
If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.
Diana Vreeland
Image
A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different.
Diana Vreeland
Image
My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.
Diana Vreeland
Image
God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
Diana Vreeland
Image
Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
Diana Vreeland
Image
A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is.
Diana Vreeland