Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.

How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.

Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that.

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.

A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.

Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.

I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.

I like hats that make the heart beat faster.

You know what is beautiful? A real conversation with a real person.

Sometimes the memory of someone is better than the reality of them.

I have been to the speed of God, sir...and I discommend it.

A book is like a trip to a world of imagination and creativity, and those who don’t read will for ever stay in the same place.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable.

Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.

This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.