Quant Quotes

People call things 'vulgar' when they are new to them. When they have become old, they become 'good taste.' ~ Mary Quant

One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out. ~ Mary Quant

Through Jimi Hendrix's music you can almost see the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and of Martin Luther King Junior, the beginnings of the Berlin Wall, Yuri Gagarin in space, Fidel Castro and Cuba, the debut of Spiderman, Martin Luther King Junior's 'I Have a Dream' speech, Ford Mustang cars, anti-Vietnam protests, Mary Quant designing the mini-skirt, Indira Gandhi becoming the Prime Minister of India, four black students sitting down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina, President Johnson pushing the Civil Rights Act, flower children growing their hair long and practicing free love, USA-funded IRA blowing up innocent civilians on the streets and in the pubs of Great Britain, Napalm bombs being dropped on the lush and carpeted fields of Vietnam, a youth-driven cultural revolution in Swinging London, police using tear gas and billy-clubs to break up protests in Chicago, Mods and Rockers battling on Brighton Beach, Native Americans given the right to vote in their own country, the United Kingdom abolishing the death penalty, and the charismatic Argentinean Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. It's all in Jimi's absurd and delirious guitar riffs. ~ Karl Wiggins

In the old parts of Nice, the family tables are out in the cobbled streets so that you can't drive past. They insist you join them at midnight on a hot July evening. So that's just what you do, abandoning the car. ~ Mary Quant

I have been on a diet since 1962. ~ Mary Quant

The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned. ~ Mary Quant

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market. ~ Louis Navellier

Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise. ~ Mary Quant

The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it. ~ Mary Quant

I love restaurants, and I love cooking. ~ Mary Quant

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. ~ Mary Quant

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison. ~ Mary Quant

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning. ~ Mary Quant

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer. ~ Vidal Sassoon

We are entrusted, you must know, with the revision of the English Dictionary. On the evidence of the Liverpool find of Christmas cards, in which occurred such couplets as:

Just to hope the day keeps fine
For you and your this Christmas time,

and:

I hope this stocking's in your line
When stars shine bright at Christmas-time

I hold that "Christmas-time" was often pronounced "Christmas-tine", and that this is a dialect variant of the older "Christmas-tide". Quant denies this, with a warmth that is unusual in him.'
'Quant is right. ~ Robert Graves

Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street. ~ Mary Quant

I absolutely adore cows. They're the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow. ~ Mary Quant

Fashion is a tool ... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of. ~ Mary Quant

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more. ~ Mary Quant

The real creators of miniskirt are the girls, the same that you seen in the streets. ~ Mary Quant

Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why. ~ Mary Quant

As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating. ~ Mary Quant

I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today. ~ Mary Quant

One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966. ~ Mary Quant

Most of my memories of the Sixties are ones of optimism, high spirits and confidence. ~ Mary Quant

Life is simple, as simple as Quant. ~ Vikrmn

In America, they never make anything without first having a market survey to ask the public what they want. People only ask for things they already know about, so you don't get anything new that way. That's why American fashion is stuck. ~ Mary Quant

Of course I remember everything I've ever worn. ~ Mary Quant

In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do. ~ Mary Quant

Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain. ~ Mary Quant

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom. ~ Mary Quant

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished because it's forever changing with the seasons. ~ Mary Quant

Many of my friends are chefs, and I learnt to cook watching them. ~ Mary Quant

I liked masculine fabrics: Prince of Wales checks, city pinstripes, and flannels - worn with black tights, flattish shoes. ~ Mary Quant

One day, a new fabric appeared on the scene. PVC was shiny, waterproof, and unlike anything I'd ever seen before. ~ Mary Quant

Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream. ~ Charles Baudelaire

I dressed like Leslie Caron as a teenager: soft school pleats, Peter Pan collars. ~ Mary Quant

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited. ~ Mary Quant

Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves. ~ Mary Quant

The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it. ~ Mary Quant

For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff. ~ Mary Quant

The situation is established not only to provoke defensiveness but to sidetrack the reformer into answering the wrong questions.... In this, the pattern of discourse resembles that of dinnertime conversations about feminism in the early 1970s. Questions of definition often predominate. Whereas feminists were parlaying questions which trivialized feminism such as "Are you one of those bra burners?" vegetarians must define themselves against the trivializations of "Are you one of those health nuts?" or "Are you one of those animal lovers?" While feminists encountered the response that "men need liberation too," vegetarians are greeted by the postulate that "plants have life too." Or to make the issue appear more ridiculous, the position is forwarded this way: "But what of the lettuce and tomato you are eating; they have feelings too!"

The attempt to create defensiveness through trivialization is the first conversational gambit which greets threatening reforms. This pre-establishes the perimeters of discourse. One must explain that no bras were burned at the Miss America pageant, or the symbolic nature of the action of that time, or that this question fails to regard with seriousness questions such as equal pay for equal work. Similarly, a vegetarian, thinking that answering these questions will provide enlightenment, may patiently explain that if plants have life, then why not be responsible solely for the plants one eats at the table rather than for the larger quant ~ Carol J. Adams

Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go. ~ Mary Quant

Only ugliness is obscene. ~ Mary Quant

I liked my skirts short because I wanted to run and catch the bus to get to work. ~ Mary Quant

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. ~ Mary Quant

I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun. ~ Mary Quant

As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board. ~ Mary Quant

Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing. ~ Mary Quant