Top 300 Karl Lagerfeld Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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2. “Personality begins where comparison ends.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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3. “Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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4. “I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

5. “Evolution is the secret for the next step.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

6. “Change is the healthiest way to survive.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

7. “Keep the best, forget the rest.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

8. “Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

9. “Think pink, but don’t wear it.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

10. “What I love best in life is new starts.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

11. “I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

12. “I never fall in love.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

13. “Stuff your brain with knowledge.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

14. “In fact, I don’t even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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15. “I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

16. “Don’t look to the approval of others for your mental stability.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

17. “The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage – it’s okay for clothes not that great for people.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

18. “I like the idea of craziness with discipline.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

19. “I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

20. “Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!”

— Karl Lagerfeld

21. “Music gives color to the air of the moment.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

22. “Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

23. “Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

24. “I’m a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

25. “Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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26. “Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English – but are great in remembering signs.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

27. “Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

28. “Fashion designers are dictators of taste.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

29. “Fantasy is often better than reality. It’s much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

30. “The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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31. “Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

32. “Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

33. “The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

34. “People who can’t be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

35. “A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

36. “I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

37. “I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

38. “The best way to know people is to work with them.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

39. “I care more about the people than about the company. That’s why I don’t want to own it. I don’t want to run a business. People do it better than I do.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

40. “A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

41. “I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

42. “I’m surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

43. “I’m a working-class person, working with class.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

44. “Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

45. “For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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46. “The brain is a muscle, and I’m a kind of body-builder.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

47. “Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

48. “Truth is only a question of point of view.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

49. “I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

50. “I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

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