Coco Chanel quotes:

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  • The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  • Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

  • A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

  • Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

  • How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

  • Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

  • Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

  • In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

  • There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

  • Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

  • Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

  • It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.

  • Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

  • I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

  • The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

  • If you are sad, If you are heartbroken , make yourself up , dress up , add more lipstick and attack . Men hate women who weep.

  • Passion goes, Boredom remains.

  • A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

  • I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

  • Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

  • I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

  • Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

  • Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

  • A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking.

  • Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

  • Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.

  • You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

  • I only drink champagne on two occasions.When I am in love and when I am not

  • A woman has the age she deserves.

  • There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a captapillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night

  • Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

  • In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different- life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself- a girl should be two things: who and what she wants...

  • I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.

  • Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

  • Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

  • Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

  • Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only

  • Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

  • There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

  • Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.

  • Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

  • Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

  • Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway

  • I'm for style - fashions change too often.

  • Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.

  • Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

  • I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

  • If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

  • I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around

  • A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

  • The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!

  • Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.

  • Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

  • In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

  • I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.

  • A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

  • To be irreplaceable, you have to be different.

  • I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature

  • Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

  • You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.

  • Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

  • I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

  • A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

  • My friends, there are no friends.

  • Caring about beauty, it is necessary to start with the heart and soul, otherwise no makeup will not help.

  • With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.

  • Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

  • If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you.

  • A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

  • No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory

  • Elegance is refusal.

  • Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

  • There are people who have money and people who are rich.

  • No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.

  • A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

  • It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

  • There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

  • A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

  • People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.

  • I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

  • Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

  • There are no ugly women, only lazy.

  • Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.

  • When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black!

  • I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

  • Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

  • A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.

  • There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

  • Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics

  • As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

  • Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.

  • I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

  • Great loves too must be endured.

  • Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

  • It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.

  • Keep your heel, head and standards high.

  • Strength is built by one's failures, not by one's successes.

  • A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

  • Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.

  • My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

  • To achieve great things, we must first dream.

  • Be classy. Anything but trashy.

  • The age of a woman is not important: you can be wonderful in your 20's, amazing in your 40's and stay fabulous for the rest of your life.

  • Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

  • I don't do fashion, I'm fashion

  • A woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates.

  • Keep your heels, head & standards high!

  • True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.

  • We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own.

  • The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

  • I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière - a real devil.

  • I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.

  • The worse a woman feels, the better should she look.

  • Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young

  • There are rich people, and there are those who have money. They are not the same people.

  • Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body.

  • Perfume heralds a womanâ??s arrival and prolongs her departure.

  • A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

  • Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

  • J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

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