A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
--Coco Chanel
A woman has the age she deserves.
--Coco Chanel
A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
--Coco Chanel
As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.
--Coco Chanel
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
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
--Coco Chanel
Elegance is refusal.
--Coco Chanel
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
--Coco Chanel
Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.
--Coco Chanel
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
--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
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
--Coco Chanel
I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.
--Coco Chanel
I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
--Coco Chanel
I was a rebellious child, a rebellious lover, a rebellious couturière- a real devil.
--Coco Chanel
In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
--Coco Chanel
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
--Coco Chanel
It's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.
--Coco Chanel
Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness.
--Coco Chanel
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
--Coco Chanel
Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.
--Coco Chanel
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
--Coco Chanel
Passion goes, Boredom remains.
--Coco Chanel
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
--Coco Chanel
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
--Coco Chanel
The best color in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
--Coco Chanel
The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.
--Coco Chanel
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
--Coco Chanel
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
--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
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 caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.
--Coco Chanel
There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman.
--Coco Chanel
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
--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
You live but once; you might as well be amusing.
--Coco Chanel
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
(in 1971).
--Coco Chanel
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