Coco Chanel Quotes

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

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

Elegance is refusal. ~ Coco Chanel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never a button without a buttonhole. ~ Coco Chanel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Passion always goes, and boredom stays. ~ Coco Chanel

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

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

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

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. ~ Coco Chanel

In truth, women are the strong ones. ~ Coco Chanel

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. ~ Coco Chanel

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

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

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. ~ Coco Chanel

Only those with no memory insist on their originality. ~ Coco Chanel

Perfume heralds a woman's arrival and prolongs her departure. ~ Coco Chanel

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

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

Strength is built by one's failures, not by one's successes. ~ Coco Chanel

Modesty is the highest elegance ~ Coco Chanel

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 ~ Coco Chanel

An interior is the natural projection of the soul. ~ Coco Chanel

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

A girl shout be two things: classy and fabulous. ~ Coco Chanel

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. ~ Coco Chanel

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

The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage. ~ Coco Chanel

Ask me who I don't dress! ~ Coco Chanel

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. ~ Coco Chanel

I have only one curiosity left: death. ~ Coco Chanel

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris. ~ Coco Chanel

Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one! ~ Coco Chanel

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

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. ~ Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why. ~ Mary Quant

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

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. ~ Coco Chanel

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

A woman in love is helpless. ~ Coco Chanel

I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all. ~ Coco Chanel

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. ~ Coco Chanel

A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism. ~ Coco Chanel

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

I don't do fashion, I'm fashion ~ Coco Chanel

Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts. ~ Coco Chanel

Saint Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays. - Coco Chanel ~ Justine Picardie

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

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

To be irreplaceable you have to be different. ~ Coco Chanel

Don't be like the rest of them, darling. ~ Coco Chanel

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for. ~ Coco Chanel

Nothing makes a woman look so old as desperately trying to look young ~ Coco Chanel

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