Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

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

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics.

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

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

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

Memories are like mercury. Every time you sort of try to get near them, they slip out of your hand like a bar of soap.

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

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.

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

Time is infinite, but we are not infinite in it.

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

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

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

Love is agony, isn't it? I've been involved with someone for some time now, but it's all so complicated. It's never straightforward is it? You meet someone, you fall in love, it's the most wonderful thing ever but... There's always something that's not quite right about love, isn't there?

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

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.

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

Nothing terrifies me more than being social.

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

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.

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness

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.