Kate Reardon Quotes

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

When did you last have fun being dignified?

A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.

Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.

Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.

Anything looks good if you've got the body of a Victoria's Secret model and the porelessly smooth skin-tone of a piece of glass.

Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

Conrad Black is a picture of a man hugely enjoying himself.

The Mark Birley fan club, of which epic American socialite Nan Kempner says she's the oldest living member, follows him doggedly.

In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain's Conservative Party.

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.

I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.

I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.

A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything - whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.