I'll Drink to That Quotes

“So that’s how you do it, I thought while exiting my little office. You get on with life by facing it.”
― Betty Halbreich, I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

“Great style, of course, has less to do with physical beauty than with high intellect. Joan Rivers, who for many years has come to the Solutions department, reinvents herself season to season, which only someone with great intellect can do. She is the definition of multifaceted, moving from QVC to a nightclub in Minneapolis to a program with her daughter at the 92nd Street Y, with the style of her clothes”
― Betty Halbreich, I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

“It wasn’t much easier for young women in an age when they’re all so mindful of being trim that they practically live in exercise clothes, which leave little to the imagination. In my day one boarded an airplane in a suit, gloves, and a hat. However, last time I went to the airport, I mistook it for a fitness center. All the rules of appropriateness”
― Betty Halbreich, I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

“Maternal figures don’t just comfort and nurture; they also set limits. In”
― Betty Halbreich, I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

“(Bergdorf Goodman’s once-legendary lingerie department became inconsequential when people started living together before marriage. Why spend a lot of money where there’s no surprise?)”
― Betty Halbreich, I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

“Idle hands and brain make for unhappiness.”
― Betty Halbreich, I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

“Mr. de la Renta swept in, swept out, and never looked at anyone. I don’t care if you are making hot dogs—to create a work environment without camaraderie is not fair to anyone.”
― Betty Halbreich, I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

“In my little corner of the store, I’m direct and truthful—two words not normally associated with the world of retail. I don’t flatter or make nice-nice.”
― Betty Halbreich, I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

“(I tell all my clients that you should love yourself in something immediately; nothing gets better the more times you look at it in the mirror.) “If you can’t dance, sit, or be comfortable with your”
― Betty Halbreich, I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist

“A lot of people don’t make nice clothes anymore. They use what once was lining material and call it a dress. This designer uses extravagant, beautiful fabrics,”
― Betty Halbreich, I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist