Coco Chanel > Quotes

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― 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

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
― Coco Chanel

“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
― Coco Chanel

“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.”
― Coco Chanel

“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
― Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
― Coco Chanel

“I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”
― Coco Chanel

“Fashion changes, but style endures.”
― Coco Chanel

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

“My life didn't please me, so I created my life.”
― Coco Chanel

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

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

“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

“I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.”
― Coco Chanel

“As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!”
― Coco Chanel

“I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”
― Coco Chanel

“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.”
― Coco Chanel , Chanel

“You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.”
― Coco Chanel

“The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”
― Coco Chanel

“Elegance is refusal.”
― Coco Chanel

“Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”
― Coco Chanel

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
― Coco Chanel

“Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!”
― Coco Chanel

“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.”
― Coco Chanel

“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
― Coco Chanel