Top 428 Quotes & Sayings by Karl Lagerfeld - Page 4

I only know how to play one role: me.

Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't.

The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living...

I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.

Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

I had an interview once with some German journalist - some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists - maybe a week after - and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, "It's impolite; remove your glasses." I said, "Do I ask you to remove your bra?"

EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.

Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking.

Black-and-whit e always looks modern, whatever that word means.

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.

I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

I like everything to be washable, myself included.

If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell's boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.

A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.

I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don't like the sister's face. She should only show her back.

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.

Be politically correct, but please don't bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that's the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.

The purpose of life is life.

Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There are people who have it done and I don't recognise them afterwards. They look like they flew through the windscreen during a car accident and were patched up badly afterwards.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

If someone gives me a to-do list, I say 'thank you, this is nice.' One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.