Jasmine Guinness Quotes

I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

I want to do something to help people.

People have always assumed that I am privileged. And that has been a problem sometimes. When I first started modelling, and I was schlepping around London with no money, I found it rather irksome that people thought I had a private income when I didn't.

I'm a total technophobe. What is wrong with paper and pen? I was delighted when I learnt the word 'Luddite,' as I thought it described me perfectly.

Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.

Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.

I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.

Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.

I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'

The government has got to do something to help independent businesses.

Drugs seem to turn people into paranoid bores. Why would anyone want to go there?

I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.

I don't believe in diets, as I always put whatever I lost right back on again. I think we should all just eat healthily and get as much exercise as we can.

When I had my kids, I took a lot of homeopathic things, and I had them both with no painkillers.

It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

Yes, I was on the cover of 'Vogue,' but girls on the cover of 'Vogue' are the most scared of rejection. Models are the most insecure of them all. Actually, actors and actresses are, and then musicians, and then models!

It's really hard work being a model.

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

I try not to wear too much makeup, as I think there comes a point where too much makes you look older.

I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?

My husband says he wants to have the best hay field in Britain. I can't wait.

People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.

People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.

Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brought up by two aunts, and she only ever met one uncle.

I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

I always dress scruffily, but at weekends I live in muddy Wellies.