"Our negative mentality is a driver for addictions...We don't drink too much or gorge on 10 bars of chocolate because we enjoy it. We do it to because we want to change how we feel."

- Sally Brampton (Aunt Sally of The Sunday Times)

"If a girl looks swell when she meet you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody."

- J. D. Salinger

Q: How to dress to make an entrance?
A: The same way you make an exit: with aplomb, shoulders back, and a withheld secret.

- Zac Posen

"Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?"

- Yves Saint Laurent

"If you're wearing lingeries that makes you feel glamorous, you're halfway there to turning heads."

-Elle Macpherson

"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly."

-Epictetus

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."

- Janis Joplin

"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things."

- Jean Cocteau

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

- Mark Twain

"What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language."

- Miuccia Prada

"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great."

- Cher