Coco Chanel Quotes
"I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Man)
"I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Life)
"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Men, Women, Want)
"I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Bed, Day, Old, Will)
"A woman has the age she deserves."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Age, Woman)
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."
- Coco Chanel
"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Desire)
"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Death, Guilt)
"Great loves too must be endured."
- Coco Chanel
"Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Work)
"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
(Related: Ideas, Fashion, Sky)
"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Fashion)
"Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Time, Women, Fashion)
"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Fashion, Style)
"Elegance is refusal."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Elegance)
"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Adolescence, Elegance, Future, Possession)
"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Dress, Elegance)
"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Time)
"As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Boredom, Man)
"A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Women, Future)
"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Boredom, Passion)
"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."
- Coco Chanel
"As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Men, Children)
"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."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Men, Women, Mother, Longing, World)
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Order)
"It is always better to be slightly underdressed."
- Coco Chanel
"Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Men, Women, Truth, Opinion)
"Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger."
- 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
(Related: Time, Love, Work)
"There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!"
- Coco Chanel
"There are people who have money and people who are rich."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Money, People)
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Act)
"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: People, Luxury, Poverty, Vulgarity)
"Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them."
- Coco Chanel
"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Nature, Merit)
"My friends, there are no friends."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Friends)
"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Luxury)
"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Success, Failure)
"Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress."
- Coco Chanel
(Related: Dress, Woman)