“Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.”
“You're not exactly the father I'd choose for my children. (Coco Chanel)”
“Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.”
“I have six illegitimate children," Villiers informed her, not kindly. She visibly paled. :My daughter is marrying a duke," the duchess said between clenched teeth. "True, he apparently has the morals of a squirrel, but that's my cross to bear.”
“Cal and I had both predicted that Brizzey would marry young, divorce, then elope with some European slob with a fake title. She was doomed to run around Greenwich, forcing everyone to call her "the Duchess.”
“How strange it all was. Wouldn't it be a lot less messy if everyone just stayed with the people they married in the first place?”