Coco Chanel Quotes

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

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

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

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

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

Be classy. Anything but trashy.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

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

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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

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

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.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

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

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

A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love." -Misia ― Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love." -Misia

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

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

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

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.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

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

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

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

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.

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

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

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

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

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

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.

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