Daphne Guinness

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

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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.

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From 1989 to 2000, I was focusing in on my children. I hadn't realized the world had changed a lot. AIDS had happened, for starters, and so many people in the arts died or were affected.

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We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.

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I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.

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I practice stoic philosophy. As a human being, you may have emotions, but these don't need to affect your soul. The two are not one.

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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.

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Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

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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.

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

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

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Quotes by Daphne Guinness