Coco Chanel Quotes

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.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

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

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

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

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

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Great loves too must be endured.

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

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

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

Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

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

A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.

All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything.

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

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.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

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.

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

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

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

Elegance means being beautiful both on the inside and out.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

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

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.

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

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

With four pairs of shoes I can travel the world.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

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

A woman in love is helpless.

God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses

An interior is the natural projection of the soul.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

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

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.

There is no fashion for the old.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

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

In truth, women are the strong ones.

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.