Welcome to our curated collection of high heels quotes, where we celebrate the iconic footwear that has left an indelible mark on fashion and culture. High heels have long been synonymous with elegance, confidence, and power, serving as both a fashion statement and a symbol of empowerment for those who wear them. Whether you’re strutting down the catwalk, stepping into the boardroom, or simply adding a touch of glamour to your everyday ensemble, high heels have a unique ability to elevate not only your height but also your mood and attitude.
From towering stilettos to classic pumps, the allure of high heels transcends generations and continents, captivating fashion enthusiasts and shoe aficionados alike. Countless designers, celebrities, and style icons have extolled the virtues of these coveted shoes, waxing poetic about their transformative effect and the undeniable allure they exude. Join us as we delve into the world of high heels through the words of those who understand their allure best. Below, you’ll find a collection of quotes that capture the essence of high heels, ready to inspire and enchant. Whether you’re seeking motivation, a touch of glamour, or simply an appreciation for the artistry of footwear, these quotes are sure to leave you feeling inspired.
I’m amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can’t run after them. Claudia Schiffer
Every time I put on high heels, I think: ‘Well, I’ll fall over today.’ Almost always, I don’t. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril. Kate Reardon
It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts! Aimee Mullins
I am so not a proper, good female. I can’t dance in high heels and I’m just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman. Kesha
High heels weren’t always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege. Patricia Marx
I fell out of the womb and landed in my mother’s high heels. Leslie Jordan
People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo. Manolo Blahnik
My concept of a ‘Doctor Who’ girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in unsuitable footwear. Of course you fell over and twisted your ankle, because you had high heels on. Sophie Aldred
I think it’s important for kids to express themselves with bad fashion. I struggle a little bit now because I have a daughter and I feel with fashion, like they’re sexualizing the kids so young. Little kids in high heels and that kind of thing is really difficult for me to wrap my head around. Busy Philipps
To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. Lorna Luft
I was known as a dogged, unflappable live reporter, the kind who runs barefoot to the camera, high heels in one hand, notebook in the other. Katy Tur
I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It’s like my uniform. Carine Roitfeld
I’m very honest in my music and I’m often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful. Natasha Bedingfield
When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I’m more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often. Meg Ryan
I love the shape of ’50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I’m only five foot three, although I always tell people I’m five foot five. Imelda May
I still get butterflies when I’m doing a runway show. The music starts, you’re wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong. Joan Smalls
High heels are pleasure with pain. Christian Louboutin
The higher the better. It’s more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way. Christian Louboutin
Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall. Ariana Grande
Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2’s Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn’t involve moving. Florence Welch
I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels. Idina Menzel
You put high heels on and you change. Manolo Blahnik
I actually think I think better in high heels. Theresa May
If you haven’t got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking! Victoria Beckham
I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, ‘I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.’ But then I think, ‘They can’t be happy in those heels.’ Kate Winslet
My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels – and they were all I ever wanted. So of course, my daughter has two pairs. Emma Thompson
I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, ‘Ooh, she’s so skinny and she’s wearing high heels.’ But I just wore what I like, and I didn’t care about people’s opinions, the same as I don’t care now. Irina Shayk
My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both. Anja Rubik
My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit. Jackie Evancho
When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seamed stockings and a garment belt underneath, a skirt, high heels, and her hair that she’s done the night before, perfectly done eyeliner, lipstick, gloves, perhaps, and all this just to sit on an airplane for a transcontinental flight. Liz Goldwyn
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. Jasmine Guinness
I really do love being outdoors – I mean, you’d never think it in my high heels and pencil skirt! But I really do miss the smell of hay and farms, and I like milking a cow. Christina Hendricks
I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on. Dolly Parton
Personally, I don’t really have a set style or look. It’s pretty much what I feel like wearing that day, from a floral-print dress and high heels to ripped jeans and army boots. Shay Mitchell
I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother’s or your grandmother’s dresses and high heels. Suzanne Farrell
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as ‘beauty.’ Nawal El Saadawi
As I try to get around with a guitar, a banjo and a suitcase of high heels and dresses, I treasure that little ukulele. Valerie June
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. Christopher Morley
Just advertising departments with legs and high heels. Richard Avedon
I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who’s 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy. Amy Adams
I don’t wear a lot of high heels. Kesha
When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge… I didn’t get very far… It’s rather difficult to run away in your mother’s high heels. Lee Radziwill
If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels. Charlize Theron
Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal. Marilyn vos Savant
I always wear high heels – I simply feel naked without them. Donatella Versace
It’s unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who’s wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you’re looking taller, shoulders back, body curved. Kareena Kapoor Khan
I never wore high heels in my hometown. Liu Wen
One of the biggest misconceptions that a woman has is that a man has to accept her the way she is. No, we don’t. I don’t know who told you that. We like the bright and shiny. If you stop wearing the makeup, stop putting on nail polish, stop wearing high heels, you’ll lose us. Steve Harvey
It’s very important with an artificial leg that all high heels are exactly the same height. Heather Mills
I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It’s nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically. Lindsey Vonn
I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name. Izabella Scorupco
I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels – and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness. Ana Gasteyer
High heels empower women in a way. Christian Louboutin
The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet. Marie Helvin
I had to wear very high heels and dance in ‘Aashiq Banaya Apne,’ and that’s very difficult. Urvashi Rautela
I pretty much only wear high heels. Toks Olagundoye
I like individuality in fashion – it annoys me when celebrities put on a bodycon dress and a pair of high heels and suddenly they are ‘style icons.’ Georgie Henley
I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love. Katie McGrath
I love heels, and as a size 36, I’ve accumulated a wall of amazing high heels from catwalk shows over the years where designers had to make especially small shoes. Tom Ford’s golden versions are my favourite. I do, however, also live in my flat Saint Laurent Chelsea boots or Givenchy sneakers. Liberty Ross
I don’t like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ever wear high heels. Bat for Lashes
I like a bit quirky, a bit strange, but then at the same time, I love putting a dress on… and a pair of high heels. It’s like a costume. Sarah Snook
I wouldn’t take it as a compliment if someone looked at one of my shoes and said, ‘Oh, that looks like a comfortable shoe.’ There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don’t have to walk in high heels. Christian Louboutin
I’m really excited for people to be able to see what else I can do besides high heels and magic powers. Serinda Swan
For women raised in the ’70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they’re associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering. Christian Louboutin
I still get butterflies when I’m doing a runway show. The music starts, you’re wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong. Karlie Kloss
I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels. John Barrowman
As a child, I was prancing around in my mother’s high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing ‘Material Girl’ into my hairbrush. Natalie Dormer
If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn’t you like to think that’s not all there is? That you haven’t hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them? Tori Amos
I have high heels in my bags if I need them for a shoot. But I like sneakers. I like being comfortable. I like to sit on the floor with my team and work. I don’t like to sit in fancy chairs. It’s really important to the culture of my company that people understand who they’re working for. Bobbi Brown
To look long and lean, wear a wide-leg trouser with high heels. Rebecca Gayheart
I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot. Marilyn Monroe
I always wear high heels. Emily Procter
I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn’t have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people. Katey Sagal
Men in high heels? That’s a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous. Christian Louboutin
Whatever I feel comfortable in is usually what I’ll wear. I go to different events and premieres and walk the red carpet… those things are awkward enough on their own. You don’t want to be pulling up a top all night. I will sacrifice foot comfort though. I love high heels. Mandy Moore
I wear high heels for long legs. Georgia May Jagger
I think any woman can be transformed by a beautiful dress and high heels. Linda Gray
I couldn’t wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom’s stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair. Florence Griffith Joyner
Some tell me I’ll break my ankle on my high heels – but I live in them. I’m known for doing speed dashes and leaps and bounds in heels. No problem. Kylie Bax
I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I’m literally going door to door for a function. Britt Ekland
I think I’m probably much better at the boots and pocket knife thing than I am at the high heels and martini thing. Sarah Wayne Callies
I’d already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist? Christian Louboutin
I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let’s get that straight right now. Vera Wang
Sometimes it’s so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents’ house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I’m wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job. Carey Mulligan
Actually… I’m starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It’s inhumane. Nina Dobrev
Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels. Gwen Stefani
If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them. Sue Grafton
One of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels. Carmen Electra
When my kids are in college, maybe I’ll drag my fishnets and high heels out. Sheena Easton
People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don’t want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I’m not against them, but comfort is not my focus. Christian Louboutin
If you’ve got the body and the chutzpah, a pencil skirt is so sexy on older women. Look for ones that fall just below the knee. Think 1940s, cinched-in jackets – imagine you are Lauren Bacall on a date with Humphrey Bogart and you just absolutely have to wear very high heels. Twiggy
If it wasn’t because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children. Salma Hayek
What you wear – and it always starts with your shoes – determines what kind of character you are. A woman who wears high heels carries herself very different to a girl who wears sneakers or sandals. It really helps determine how you carry yourself. Winona Ryder
There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don’t have to walk in high heels. Christian Louboutin
I’m very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I’m very much a mommy’s boy. Tom Hardy
If I’m DJing a show, I will normally wear the designer I’m DJing for; if I’m DJing a party, I will most likely be wearing very high heels. Chelsea Leyland
Life’s too short to wear high heels. Eva Green
I can’t walk in high heels, never mind dance in them. Kesha
My women students openly admit that they dress for interviews like dates, hoping to look their best: makeup, high heels, a well-fitting suit that shows off their figure. And I always tell them to make sure to wear a shirt under the suit jacket. Form fitting, yes. Cleavage, no. Susan Estrich
I think if I could be any superhero, it’d probably be my mom… but I don’t think I’d look too good in high heels, so it’s not gonna happen. Jason Behr
