Coco Chanel Quotes

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

To be irreplaceable you have to be different.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

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

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

As long as you know most men are like children, you know everything.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

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

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

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

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

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

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

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

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.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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

There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.

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.

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

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

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

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

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

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

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!

When I can no longer create anything I'll be done for.

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

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

There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

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

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.

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

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