More from Karl Lagerfeld
I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I’m a working-class person, working with class.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld The purpose of life is life.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld
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From our community writers
They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on before
If you cross the Atlantic with an American lady you invariably fall in love with her before the journey is over.
Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope One that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
Tycho BraheTycho Brahe Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.
Dwyane WadeDwyane Wade My favorite thing before going to school was watching ‘Full House,’ ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch,’ and ‘Boy Meets World.’
Sabrina CarpenterSabrina Carpenter Before I became the ‘Great Test of the West,” I was the ‘Beast of the East.’
Shaquille O'NealShaquille O'Neal [Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
Queen Elizabeth IIQueen Elizabeth II It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.
Tycho BraheTycho Brahe