Words matter. These are the best Lee Radziwill Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I feel like I’m in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.
It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.
If I see an orchid that’s fantastically expensive, I’ll buy it. It’s worth it, for no other reason than it gives me pleasure.
Onassis told me. He begged me to come to the wedding.
I’ve always been interested in art, architecture, color.
I think there’s nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something.
I always begin a room with the rug; it is literally the foundation of the space. I then go on to the furniture.
I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It’s the same. You know, you’re really no different than anybody else who’s lost somebody they adored.
My ideal evening is to have dinner with one person or a few persons, and then be in bed by 11.
My father, naturally, spoiled me when I was allowed to see him – flying to New York from Washington, alone, in those terrifying planes. He’d take me to Danny Kaye movies and rent a dog for me to walk in the park on Sunday – a different dog every Sunday – and then to have butterscotch sundaes with almonds at Schrafft’s.
Jackie’s dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.
I’m obviously all for women’s lib.
There were so many things I couldn’t do when my brother-in-law was president.
No, I never did hats. I didn’t – never felt they were so becoming to me.
Paris is life-enhancing for all those reasons we know and all those words that have become so banal.
I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.
I am always aware that I’ve had a special and privileged life, yet it has been balanced by tragedy as it has been for so many others.
I don’t know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It’s very peaceful to have lost that desire.
The most important thing, I’ve found, is to be self-reliant.
As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother’s extremely banal taste.
When I was married, I didn’t work. When I had my children, I didn’t work. But before that, I’d work for Diana Vreeland at ‘Harper’s Bazaar.’
Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.
I never saw a play with my mother until I was 14, and then it was ‘Hansel and Gretel.’
Decorating has always been my hobby.
I’m constantly falling in love with objects, and they follow me around the world.
New Yorkers are obsessed with youth and eternal youth and then their careers and making money.
When I buy something, I do so with the intention of keeping it forever.
I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer.
My mother endlessly told me I was too fat, that I wasn’t a patch on my sister. It wasn’t much fun growing up with her and her almost irrational social climbing in that huge house of my dull stepfather Hughdie Auchincloss in Washington.
There is something to be said for being older – and memories.
