Top 30 Daphne Guinness Quotes

My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.

It’s quite nice to have a place to leave things. You can be a permanent gypsy, but it’s nice to go home.

Writing is a funny thing. It’s not like you’re working on a schedule. It comes in fits and starts.

You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.

I don’t tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

I don’t like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

I’d quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don’t like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.

People always assume I don’t need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it’s always reported to be.

Oh, I love tea. I have to take tea bags wherever I go.

I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That’s not me at all.

Through art, you create your own world.

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art, even though people who collect clothes get a bad rap because they’re told it’s all vanity.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective.

There are a lot of people who do a lot of things to be outrageous with fashion, hair or makeup.

I don’t dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

Nothing terrifies me more than being social.

A marriage is a solemn affair. The tempest of emotions and the myriad of arrangements are giddying, and when one is faced with these, clothing seems to be the last of one’s priorities.

I have a four-and-a-half-, nearly five-octave range. I probably should have had extra lessons as a child, as I am certain my family heard my potential, but I didn’t. I was in the choir as a schoolgirl, but really, it is all self-taught.

Fashion is not just about trends. It’s about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the ’80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.

I think it’s beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.

I can’t understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can’t tell you the amounts of times I’ve been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

I think the world’s just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.

Holding a note is a very difficult thing – you have to use your whole body to achieve a perfect pitch.

Love is agony, isn’t it? I’ve been involved with someone for some time now, but it’s all so complicated. It’s never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it’s the most wonderful thing ever but… There’s always something that’s not quite right about love, isn’t there?

Switch off reality TV! I’ve only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.

I really don’t understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there’s unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

I’m normally late, so I just kind of throw on the sort of thing that’s at hand. And then I’ll go through phases of wearing the same thing again and again and again – and my wardrobe is mainly about black and white, so it goes together. I’ll play with certain elements, but I don’t really think about it too much.