Chanel Quotes

I'm for style - fashions change too often. ~ Coco Chanel

Whatever past you came from, you don't have to go back. ~ Chanel Miller

A colorful Chanel bag is a way to mix up anything. ~ Ashley Madekwe

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

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century. ~ Diana Vreeland

My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume. ~ Coco Chanel

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

For some, there is only one true love. But not everyone is lucky enough to have that love work out for them. And for some, the love we cannot have is the most powerful one of all. ~ Chanel Cleeton

The indigestible parts of giant squid, in particular their beaks, accumulate in sperm whales' stomachs into the substance known as ambergris, which is used as a fixative in perfumes. The next time you spray on Chanel Number 5 (assuming you do), you may wish to reflect that you are dousing yourself in distillate of unseen sea monster. ~ Bill Bryson

Elegance is refusal. ~ Coco Chanel

I learned the divide between unthinkable violence and ordinary life was paper thin. ~ Chanel Miller

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

There's no Chanel collection without black. (It) will never exist. Who can live without some black clothes. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

To achieve great things, we must first dream. ~ Coco Chanel

My life didn't please me, so I created my life. ~ Coco Chanel

A young lady ought to be two things: tasteful and breathtaking. ~ Coco Chanel

Now I had babies confuse before. John Green Dudley, first word out a that boy's mouth was Mama and he was looking straight at me. But then pretty soon he calling everybody including hisself Mama and calling his daddy Mama too ... Nobody worry bout it. Course when he start playing dress-up in his sister's Jewel Taylor twirl skirts and wearing Chanel No. 5, we all get a little concern. ~ Kathryn Stockett

Chanel wasn't about to sit and deal with any type of disrespect, she had too much going on as it was. Keyshia didn't bother to protest so that was her cue to exit the bar. ~ Nako

Which would you rather have––an unlimited supply of Chanel No. 5, or freedom? ~ Elizabeth Wein

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity. ~ Coco Chanel

To be in exile is to have the things you love most in the world - the air you breathe, the earth you walk upon - taken from you. They exist on the other side of a wall - there and not - unaltered by time and circumstance, preserved in a perfect memory in a land of dreams. ~ Chanel Cleeton

You don't have to look like an old fuddy-duddy, but I believe it was Chanel who said, 'Nothing makes a woman look so old as trying desperately hard to look young'. I think you can be attractive at any age. I think trying to look like a spring chicken when you're not makes you look ridiculous. ~ Iris Apfel

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

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

Anyone would be lucky to be involved with you. I'm lucky you kissed me. So fucking lucky. ~ Chanel Cleeton

She had no time for anything humdrum, banal, or mundane - to the extent that the task of cleaning her desk at every night had to be done with a bottle of Perrier water and Chanel No. 5. ~ Anna Wintour

If you don't smell good, then you don't look good. ~ Katy Elizabeth

Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable ~ Coco Chanel

Everyone else got to wear their regular outfits from the first movie. I had to wear my outfit that Jabba picked out for me. Jabba the Hutt - the fashionista. Jabba the Hutt - the Coco Chanel of intergalactic style. Trendsetter, fashion maven, leader of women's looks in his world, on his planet and the next. In wax, I would forever be outfitted by outlaw Jabba. In wax and out, I would forever be stone-faced. ~ Carrie Fisher

I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand. ~ Emma Watson

But to a dog, the stench of a decaying rat probably smells like Chanel No. 5. ~ Stephen King

a girl should be two things:: classy & fabulous ~ Coco Chanel

I worry I'm surrounded by madmen who desire to burn the world down without thought for the consequences of their actions, without regard for all the innocent lives that will be charred by the flames. ~ Chanel Cleeton

On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right to be there. And Karl Lagerfeld is so poetic, such an intelligent man. I like the way he has the power to draw attention. ~ Rinko Kikuchi

Fashion is in the sky, in the street. ~ Coco Chanel

Never a button without a buttonhole. ~ Coco Chanel

Pain, when examined closely, became clarity... He believed he could break us, but from this day forward, I would begin to build. ~ Chanel Miller

She was almost too beautiful. Maybe that sounded stupid, but there wasn't another way to describe it. ~ Chanel Cleeton

Sometimes life gives you cotton stockings. Sometimes it gives you a Chanel gown ... ~ Unknown

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

Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed! ~ Coco Chanel

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside. ~ Coco Chanel

For so long I believed I needed permission to return to my life, waiting for validation. I promised myself I would never question whether I deserved better. The answer would always be yes and yes and yes. ~ Chanel Miller

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different. ~ Coco Chanel

...for most of the ride through British Columbia we were treated to stunning scenery ranging from majestic peaks shrouded in mist to more barren vistas reminiscent of the Old West ... to churning rivers fed by waterfalls twisting down mountains like the woven tassels on the white summer Chanel bag I'd left back home. Do waterfalls ever feel unfashionable after Labor Day ~ Doreen Orion

When you come into a house like Saint Laurent, or Chanel, or Lanvin, and you go into a place that existed before you were born and will exist after you die, it takes some time to get in, to get to people, and to get the energy of the place. ~ Alber Elbaz

I'm grateful to look the way I do. However, if I could change anything, I would like to be a bit bigger all over. Not much - just a bit. ~ Chanel Iman

The Chanel aesthetic is like the force in Star Wars, surrounding, penetrating, and binding together the universe of fashion, now and forever. ~ Karen Karbo

If a woman's in my bed, it's because I want her there. I'm not a child who gets bored with his toys after five minutes. If the guys you've been with treat you like that, then you've been screwing round with boys. Would't you rather fuck a man? ~ Chanel Cleeton

"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed." ~ Coco Chanel

I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time! I like to admire from afar. ~ Brittany Snow

When I was growing up, my mother always wore Chanel. ~ Alice Dellal

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life, ~ Coco Chanel

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing. ~ Iris Apfel

My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show. ~ Chanel West Coast

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

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

I was reminded that having extra needs does not make you too difficult, too time consuming, but worthy of compassion and love. ~ Chanel Miller

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

How do you come after me, when it is all of us? One of the greatest dangers of victimhood is the singling out; all of your attributes and anecdotes assigned blame. In court they'll try to make you believe you are unlike the others, you are different, an exception. You are dirtier, more stupid, more promiscuous. But it's a trick. The assault is never personal, the blaming is. ~ Chanel Miller

I feel like fashion and style is a big part of being an artist. ~ Chanel West Coast

What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion passes, but style remains. ~ Coco Chanel

One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence. ~ Coco Chanel

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

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic. ~ Gaspard Ulliel

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance! ~ Coco Chanel

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion ~ Coco Chanel

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

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful. ~ Coco Chanel

Quintana's christening was in 1966, this Christian Dior show was two years later, 1968: 1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States but they were for women who presented themselves a certain way the same time. It was a way of looking, it was a way of being. It was a period. What became of that way of looking, that way of being, that time, that period? What became of the women smoking cigarettes in their Chanel suits and their David Webb bracelets, what became of Diana holding the champagne flute and the one of Sara Mankiewicz's Minton plates? What became of Sara Mankiewicz's Minton plates? ~ Joan Didion

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. ~ Coco Chanel

It usually takes an ethnic girl - I'm not saying black, I'm saying ethnic, let's make that clear - twice as long. We've gotta work extra-hard to stay in the game and stay with the girls who do well but aren't ethnic. ~ Chanel Iman

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

My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel. ~ Theophilus London

Great loves too must be endured. ~ Coco Chanel

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

The right ingredients can create a legend. ~ Coco Chanel

A girl should be two things:: classy & fabulous ~ Coco Chanel

My pain was never more valuable than his potential. ~ Chanel Miller

A lot of companies talk about letting creative lead, but Chanel actually does let it lead. ~ Maureen Chiquet

This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I'll always find a way to keep going. ~ Chanel Miller

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

Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time. ~ Andre Malraux

People think that the word "class" involves the color black, wearing Chanel No. 5 and carrying a Louis Vuitton. The word "class" and "classy", to me, mean what happens when you are able to be thankful, able to give and be a true friend to anybody regardless of their background and where they come from. That's class. It's a beautiful wave that washes away faults and paints things in a graceful light. You can't always do this, though. Sometimes you just need to slap someone. Still, you can slap someone with a lot of poise and that makes all the difference. ~ C. JoyBell C.

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

Privilege accompanies the light skinned, helped maintained his belief that consequences did not apply to him. In this system who is untouchable, who is disposable, whose lives are we intent on preserving, who goes unaccounted for, who is the true disrupter, the one firing, the one fingering, who created a problem where there never was one? ~ Chanel Miller

The best accessory for a woman - handsome man! ~ Coco Chanel

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. ~ Coco Chanel

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays. ~ Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high! ~ Coco Chanel

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

You'd never get tired of a pony. It's a classic. It's, like, the Chanel jacket of toys. ~ Sophie Kinsella

We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.' ~ Chanel Iman

I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it. ~ Chanel Iman

Passion always goes, and boredom stays. ~ Coco Chanel

I drive too fast;
I love too much;
I wish to die every day I live and I live like my wish was to come true.
Ghandi, Ensler, Chanel, and others… What have they got on you but the ability to put into words what you feel. Somewhere deep inside you feel, we all feel, that instinct for carpe diem. It is just that most don't know it until the moment they are about to die...
Carpe diem amici mei, carpe diem iam. ~ B. Farkas

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. ~ Coco Chanel

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. ~ Coco Chanel