I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter. Mary Quant Read Quote
The Lord’s Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it. Mary Quant Read Quote
Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it’s always got to get better. Mary Quant Read Quote
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I’d always seen myself as a duffer by comparison. Mary Quant Read Quote
I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars. Mary Quant Read Quote
People call things ‘vulgar’ when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become ‘good taste.’ Mary Quant Read Quote
My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning. Mary Quant Read Quote
My favourite Nice restaurant is in the market. It’s open mainly for the market people, and shuts in August. Mary Quant Read Quote
