Jasmine Guinness quotes:

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
  • I always dreamt that I would marry in the Piazza Del Campo in Siena and go on my honeymoon down the Amazon, up the Nile, on a gallop through the pyramids, to Nepal and Kerala, on a safari and finally to Lake Titicaca in Peru.

  • As a teenager, I was teased at school about my height and long legs, but now they are my best assets. Kids can be mean. When I was at school, I considered myself ugly, but that was when I was silly enough to believe that what other people thought mattered. Now I think I am pretty. I'm not beautiful. There is a difference.

  • Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.

  • I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

  • I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars.

  • Books have always been an important part of my life.

  • Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics.

  • Being mum is a number one job. That takes priority.

  • My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.

  • It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

  • I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?

  • People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

  • We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

  • I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes.

  • Arnica is great. I got kicked in the stomach by a horse once, and some adult slapped arnica all over it, and I had no bruise at all to show for my pain.

  • While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

  • I've worked since I was 18. I have no trust fund and don't expect anything.

  • I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.

  • Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.

  • It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

  • It was tough going to boarding school. It was very hard work.

  • I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. She is always straight with me and can make me laugh hysterically. Everyone should have someone like that in their life.

  • I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brought up by two aunts, and she only ever met one uncle.

  • People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.

  • I don't believe in diets, as I always put whatever I lost right back on again. I think we should all just eat healthily and get as much exercise as we can.

  • My husband is experimental, loves to cook, and is really good at it. If I do the cooking, I lose my appetite. Why is that?

  • I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do.

  • We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.

  • It's really hard work being a model.

  • Because I was very big and she was very small, my mother had a horrible birth when I was born. So she always said: 'I'm never having any more kids!'

  • People tend to assume that I come from a long line of castle-dwelling gentry and am made of money.

  • I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles.

  • I used to be frightened of the countryside after dark. Now I enjoy it. There is something wonderful about those strange country and wildlife noises.

  • As a model, I travel non-stop.

  • In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!

  • I hate my hair! When clean, it is fuzzy, and when not clean, it is lank.

  • My husband says he wants to have the best hay field in Britain. I can't wait.

  • I try not to wear too much makeup, as I think there comes a point where too much makes you look older.

  • Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'

  • Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.

  • I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share