Coco Chanel Quotes

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

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

Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.

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

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

If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman.

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

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

Before me no one would have dared dress in black

Passion always goes, and boredom stays.

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

Capel said, "Remember that you're a woman." All too often I forgot that.

Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.

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.

Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.

A woman has the age she deserves.

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

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

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

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

A woman in love is helpless.

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.

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

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

An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

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

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

One should not seek happiness, but rather happy people.

A girl should be two things:: classy & fabulous

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.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.

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

To be irreplaceable you have to be different.

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,
but to make them beautifu

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

Modesty is the highest elegance

Ask me who I don't dress!

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it.

It's probably not just by chance that I'm alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he's terribly strong. And if he's stronger than I, I'm the one who can't live with him. ... I'm neither smart nor stupid, but I don't think I'm a run-of-the-mill person. I've been in business without being a businesswoman, I've loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I've loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I've done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

I don't do fashion, I'm fashion

There is no fashion for the old.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

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

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

Elegance is refusal.

He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

A woman should wear perfume wherever she wants to be kissed.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

In order to be different one must be irreplaceble.

I'm for style - fashions change too often.

Dress like you are going to meet your worst enemy today.

For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.

Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself.

a girl should be two things:: classy & fabulous

Women hide their imperfections instead of accepting them as an added charm.

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

Great loves too must be endured.

Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.

Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.

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

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

The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.

One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.

As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

It's always better to be underdressed.

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

To achieve great things, we must first dream.

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

nothing makes a woman look older than obvious expensiveness, ornateness, complicatpon

A girl shout be two things: classy and fabulous.

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

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.

I have only one curiosity left: death.

The more stupid and unlucky man is,
the more claims he makes to the woman.

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.

I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

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

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 right ingredients can create a legend.

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

I've never done anything by halves.

Fashion passes, but style remains.