Charles James Quotes

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

Forget all you know & learn something every day.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.

So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another

The best design reveals itself during a long fatiguing process of digging into the subconscious.

Brancusi has his medium: Picasso, Faulkner, Shostakovich, theirs. Mine happens to be cloth.

Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.

My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had.

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.

Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.

The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.

You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines.

In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.

All political power is a trust.

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

He was uniformly of an opinion which, though not a popular one, he was ready to aver, that the right of governing was not property, but a trust.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.

It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief.

I recognize that virtually every company that comes in here has a perspective. It's often not difficult to understand why they have the perspective that they have.

The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

a greater evil than the restoration of the Bourbons to the world in general, and England in particular, can hardly happen.

Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.

Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.

Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.

No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.