Words matter. These are the best Nicholas Haslam Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m the male Kate Moss.
It’s terribly easy to be well dressed. It’s much more difficult to be badly dressed.
Often it’s a lack of time, not taste, that leads someone to hire a decorator. A good decorator/client relationship should be like a marriage. The time one puts in needs to be extensive. One needs to listen to them and understand what they like and how they live.
I’ve always wanted to look different. I always think I’ve got this terrible figure. I’d like to be 3 inches taller.
I go to Topman at lunchtime and stare at these beautiful, beautiful people who work there and who are so well-dressed. And I think: ‘Oh! I want to look like that! They’re amazing, how well-dressed they are!’
Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.
I have a thirst – it’s an awful word, but I’m thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.
Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting.
I’m about love.
I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth – artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.
People think that buying something for their home which is up-to-date is chic, but often it’s a cliche. I call people who simply give clients the current ‘thing’ stylists not decorators.
I don’t do nostalgia. The phrase ‘the good old days’ never passes my lips.
I don’t really do a big Saturday supper. I prefer entertaining in the daytime.
It’s rude to not try and look up-to-date. Is rude the right word? Yes! It’s rude – rude to other people.
I could care less if it’s Mick Jagger or the man on the street. I just like interesting people, and I happen to know a lot of stars.
I don’t feel I have to charm somebody, I feel I want to know them; it’s a different thing.
I believe every room speaks, tells you what to do to it. You have to listen to that.
I didn’t want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King’s Road. If I don’t fade into a room at White’s, that’s fine. My father was chairman of Brooks’ and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.
I wanted to be grown up the minute I could.
I’ve never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.
It’s the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.
Vanity is not having facelifts if you’re ugly. Those people who say: ‘Oh, I’d never dream of having anything done!’ That’s rude. It’s rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent… or just invent… it’s one’s duty to not get stuffy.
