marvellous quotes

In the world today haute couture is one of the last repositories ofthemarvellous, and the couturiers thelast possessors of the wand of Cinderella's Fairy Godmother.

- Christian Dior
Dior by Dior (translated by Antonia Fraser,1957).

The mythical America†that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.

-Jonathan Raban
  Hunting Mister Heartbreak, ch.2.