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Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled. — Siegfried Sassoon

My greatest regret is selling my company. — Vidal Sassoon

I didn't want to die - not before I'd finished reading The Return of the Native anyhow. — Siegfried Sassoon

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it. — Vidal Sassoon

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism. — Vidal Sassoon

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right. — Vidal Sassoon

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death. — Siegfried Sassoon

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
Look in my heart, kind friends, and tremble,
Since there your elements assemble. — Siegfried Sassoon

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft. — Vidal Sassoon

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage. — Vidal Sassoon

Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on. — John Paul DeJoria

Bring out the eyes. — Vidal Sassoon

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself. — Vidal Sassoon

I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city. — Siegfried Sassoon

Soldiers are dreamers. — Siegfried Sassoon

Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination. — Vidal Sassoon

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face. — Vidal Sassoon

O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud. — Siegfried Sassoon

Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight. — Siegfried Sassoon

For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element. — Vidal Sassoon

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer. — Vidal Sassoon

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book. — Pat Barker

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me. — Vidal Sassoon

There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.' — Vidal Sassoon

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could. — Vidal Sassoon

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous. — Vidal Sassoon

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows. — Siegfried Sassoon

The dead ... are more real than the living because they are complete. — Siegfried Sassoon

If you don't look good, we don't look good. — Vidal Sassoon

In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet. — Siegfried Sassoon

They march from safety, and the bird-sung joy
Of grass-green thickets, to the land where all
Is ruin, and nothing blossoms but the sky — Siegfried Sassoon

And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
I'd toddle safely home and die
in bed. — Siegfried Sassoon

The visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity. — Siegfried Sassoon

As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair. — Vidal Sassoon

You must always do what you feel is right. — Vidal Sassoon

If you look good, we look good. — Vidal Sassoon

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good? — Vidal Sassoon

Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way. — Vidal Sassoon

It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel. — Vidal Sassoon

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft. — Vidal Sassoon

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again. — Vidal Sassoon

We were carrying something in our heads which belonged to us alone, and to those we had left behind us in the battle. — Siegfried Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world. — John Paul DeJoria

I'm a great jazz fan. — Vidal Sassoon

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer. — Vidal Sassoon

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous. — Vidal Sassoon

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount. — Vidal Sassoon

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view. — Vidal Sassoon

Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them. — Donald Sassoon

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed. — Vidal Sassoon

Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self. — Vidal Sassoon

The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary. — Vidal Sassoon

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. — Siegfried Sassoon

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished. — Vidal Sassoon

I keep such music in my brain
No din this side of death can quell;
Glory exulting over pain,
And beauty, garlanded in hell. — Siegfried Sassoon

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair. — Vidal Sassoon

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted. — Vidal Sassoon

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win. — Vidal Sassoon

I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele. — Siegfried Sassoon

Words are fools
Who follow blindly, once they get a lead.
But thoughts are kingfishers that haunt the pools
Of quiet; seldom-seen... — Siegried Sassoon

In me the tiger sniffs the rose. — Siegfried Sassoon

Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain. — Siegfried Sassoon

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art. — Vidal Sassoon

And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad
Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts
That drive them out to jabber among the trees. — Siegfried Sassoon

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise. — Vidal Sassoon

And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken. — Siegfried Sassoon

If I ever thought of myself as a man of thirty-five it was a visualization of dreary decrepitude. — Siegfried Sassoon

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo. — Vidal Sassoon

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think. — Winston Churchill

Life for the majority of the population.
Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds.
Culminating in a cheap funeral. — Siegfried Sassoon

I was a bit of a rebel. — Vidal Sassoon

And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls
To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume. — Siegfried Sassoon

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. — Siegfried Sassoon

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans. — Siegfried Sassoon